[April Fool] AGS to become shareware

Ginny · Fri 02/04/2004 22:42:36

Heh, that's funny, me too

I'm not quite sure how this is torture.. suffocation?

I just put none as the movie star, I wonder why I didn't think of Depp

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Fri 02/04/2004 22:48:10

QuoteI'm not quite sure how this is torture.. suffocation?

It's SOOOOOO easy to spot an uninitiated in the "Python" way...

Hey, look at it this way - it sure beats the funniest joke in the world!

IntentInsane · Fri 02/04/2004 22:50:02

I put me for movie star

jason · Sat 03/04/2004 00:25:19

CJ = ownage

deltamatrix · Sat 03/04/2004 02:16:33

Forums like these truly are the best places to make such jokes.

Full of gulliable members.

Good one CJ, I'm laughing my head off.

Nellie · Sat 03/04/2004 16:24:55

QuoteMy college told me Princess Anne was visiting yesterday. Unfortunately that wasn't an april fool, she really did come.

Lol!

Fabiano · Sat 03/04/2004 17:38:08

... Just arrived from a trip and I literally tripped in that post. I reaaly must say that I was reading the posts 1 by 1 and searching in google "Adventure Engine"

... Gosh.

hauhauhahuahuahuahuhauhauhauaa
nice one

Scummbuddy · Mon 12/04/2004 10:10:37

heh, if you want to read up about the suckers from years past,
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Chris Jones
Respect my authoritai
(4/1/02 12:09 am)
Reply AGS cancelled
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As much as it pains me to say it, AGS has just been taking up too much of my time lately. I've been doing it now for over 3 years, and I have lost the motivation for working on it any more.

So, v2.31 will be the final version ever. I hope it's stable enough to be going on with.

I'm really sorry about this, but I felt I had to make this decision rather than letting it carry on for ages with no enthusiasm and no-one quite knowing what the status is.

I'd just like to thank you all in the community for being so great over the last few years. The website and forums will stay up for the time being, but I recommend you all try to find an alternative such as SCRAMM.

Cheers,
Chris
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http://pub6.ezboard.com/fdosuserforumsfrm4.showMessage?topicID=2708.topic

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Mon 12/04/2004 10:51:44

Hmm, not as believable as this year's. Mr. CJ is becoming a better liar by the year. Wonder about 2005... *shudder*

Davis · Mon 12/04/2004 17:51:09

I like how the announcement wasnt on April 1, because I just got back to these forums, was reading the thread, and I was like oh ho ho, April Fools, scrolled back up to see when he'd posted it, and was like, um... March? Holy crap he's serious!

80 bucks isn't a bad price to pay at all in my opinion, which I'm sure everyone wanted, as long as you could pay it at the point you were going to sell a commercial game, because having to pay it up front might motivate some people to actually finish their games (Holy crap I paid 80 American!) but might be looked at as a steep price to those who want to release non-pay games in the latest versions.

I cant say how exstatic (sp?) I am that CJ is still updating and supporting this program.

Pumaman · Mon 12/04/2004 18:07:03

Quote from: Davis on Mon 12/04/2004 17:51:09
I like how the announcement wasnt on April 1, because I just got back to these forums, was reading the thread, and I was like oh ho ho, April Fools, scrolled back up to see when he'd posted it, and was like, um... March? Holy crap he's serious!

It was actually posted at 00:00 on 1 Apr, but because the daylight savings has kicked in since then the time has got wound back to 23:00 on 31 Mar.

Hollister Man · Mon 12/04/2004 23:43:03

Seems like us idiots would stop believing ANYTHING CJ says bewteen March 30th and April 2nd.

Of course, he'd make up "stupid AGS people day" and trick us all again anyways.

Of course, he COULD have made the credit card thing functional and earned himself a couple hundred bucks in the process.

Snake · Tue 13/04/2004 03:50:29

Jesarsh fucking Khrisht.

As soon as I saw this thread I immediately thought it was an April fools joke. Then I kept reading and it sounded real, not to mention it wasn't posted on April fools (which would be too obvious anyway).
So I wouldn't be an asshole, eventhough knowing that CJ does infact deserve such a prize as $100 dollars for all the devotion and time he's put into it, to be dissapointed if this really happened?

This was going to be my post before I found out:

Next thing you know AGS will support the creation of FPS

1. Adventure genre "dies", adventure gamers pissed
2. The dreadful rise of FPS
3. The rise of underground adventures
4. The Rise of AGS
5. The creation of incredibly fun freeware adventures created by the original "riffraff" (the same ones some of you want to kick the fuck out now and keep seperated from the payers...) that first nested in this community and made it popular and successful
6. AGS supports new and improved features including plug-ins
7. AGS grows even bigger
8. A price is slapped on it's ass
9. "Riffraff" is kept away and only professional-grade games are paid attention to
10. The "poor" lose their interest and say "fuck AGS" altogether
11. More and more updates and new features are created
12. AGS supports polygons
13. FPS start to be created with AGS
14. The price is increased
15. Less adventures are made
16. Name changes to FPSGS
17. The underground adventure genre dies

woot

Some scary shit, CJ, YoU ASSNUT!!1

If this really happened though, I would eventually register anyway, since AGS is well worth it. But still, I'd be disapointed knowing that it's totally gone the other direction and going against everything AGS stood for in the beginning.

--Snake

--EDIT--
Oh and:
18. In time, only Star Wars games are created with FPSGS
19. Old AGSers write letters to CJ saying that they are no longer fans
20. CJ commits suicide

APJ · Tue 13/04/2004 11:08:04

When I first read this I thought it's just an April Fool's joke, then when people said they'd registered and it was real I got confused :

spoofer4ever · Tue 13/04/2004 11:43:29

***Note to self: send goons after cj***

RLacey · Tue 13/04/2004 21:29:33

I suspected that this was an April fool's joke, but I was getting worried by the time I reached the third page...

Fabiano · Wed 14/04/2004 00:33:36

Quote from: LaceyWare on Tue 13/04/2004 21:29:33
I suspected that this was an April fool's joke, but I was getting worried by the time I reached the third page...

yup... scary heh...

AGS_guy · Wed 14/04/2004 11:32:29

I can't download the prototype, the links down.

Jockstrap · Wed 14/04/2004 11:35:41

Yes, but can you read?

Pumaman · Wed 14/04/2004 20:29:58

Quote from: AGS_guy on Wed 14/04/2004 11:32:29
I can't download the prototype, the links down.

Uh yeah, it was only available for 1st April.