[April Fool] AGS to become shareware

[Nacho]

And it'll be alive, not 7 more months, but forever, if you post make your monthly update to it... 

[Afflict]

so yeah the inevitable happend <bleh so what i cant spell>
I think its great and a program of this calliber has to turn shareware. I know that kids are going to have a problem with the fees and that it will now kill their ambition to build this? Cant teams buy a package or sumthing to lower costs? I myself live in S A and for me a 100 $ is like R600-00 So this varies up n up n down... so for me to fork out almost a grand for the software aint gona happen cause i can pretty much just buy 3ds max... and live my happy life and learn to code java! I use blender and all these nifty lil freeware programs cause they whip some of the big bad boys anyway. so yeah Chris went and did the inevitable and I dont blame him he just didnt think it all through enough.
Chris depending on how passionate you are about your lil program and you community you should let some of the programming boys keep it maintained and you can still do it wen you really want to I say if you dont do a proper proposal you should just kill the project and hand over the code if this is to harse then well you couldnt love it like you said you did... Thanks for the support through the years to the community. Re check your pricing and iam sure that most people wont mind paying you. Just remember as soon as we pay were customers and you need to keep us happy! So what i suggest is make yourself a nice lil pdf with all this info in. ... pricing packages registration fees once off or monthly ect. Just a though use it dont. whateva

[Indie Boy]

Personally I wouldnt mind paying a small fee but as a paying customer I would like regular updates. Now as it is as freeware ive only seen one proper update since ive been using ags (started in October 2004), so over 6 months the last update was in november

[Afflict]

Oops!
You have tried something we didn't think of. Whatever it was, it's not necessary to finish the game.

SKY Version 1.04.2004

CJ YOUR NUTS MAN !!!
This is the best aprils fools joke no no wait the best aprils fool and may june july ect joke

So I guess you do love your community ! YOU GO MAN!
Still I think you should get the gus to help you out cause it might get time consuming like you mentioned...
besides can we critisize your program if youd like iam good at the bugs thing..

[auhsor]

All I can say is  There are no other words. I don't think we need another thread this year for april fools.

[Ubel]

I hate you CJ!!!

When I first saw this thread my heart jumped out of my throat. I really thought you were gonna do it!
If you EVER make AGS a shareware I'll come to kill you with my own hands...

[hedgefield]

*Agrees on most of Pablo's post*

13 pages...omg. That's some April Fool's joke.

[Gilbert]

Hehe think about it, if it's real it wouldn't be moved to this popular threads forum, since it would be an announcement then.

[Ozwalled]

Less than a month more, and it'll have been running for a year. That HAS to be a record of some sort, no? 

[Ishmael]

Indeedness...

[..]

The question is... can he pull it off again...? I mean surely no-one would believe anything he says on april fools....

....would they?

[Domino]

How can last years April Fools day joke be topped?  I don't know, but i'm keeping my eyes open just waiting for it.

Next thing you know, CJ will tell us that all the Forum data was eaten by his dog or something and we all have to re-register. 

Shawn

[Scummbuddy]

shhh, youre ruining any potential fun.. i hope these posts are deleted.

[Gilbert]

Next thing you know, CJ will tell us that all the Forum data was eaten by his dog or something and we all have to re-register.Ã, 

Well, CJ did tell us his harddrive crashed and the data in it were lost.





But this is not a joke.