Judge by yourself.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...reverde.utopia
Disclamer - It just been shared, I got no impression on it!
Judge by yourself.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...reverde.utopia
Disclamer - It just been shared, I got no impression on it!
Last edited by Bishop; 07-11-2015 at 01:31.
Trying to charge people to use someone else's game? Not worth imo even IF the formatting was better than Mink's.
"The Utopian voice of reason" ~Ben (And he's an official moderator)
Nice, glad to see someone is/was actually working on that. Making it a donation based might be better though, similar to the model munks using.
Charging money for beta software for a _free_ game that, belongs to someone else, is not a good idea. Releasing it as beta and asking people to help improve it via bug reports / testing and suggestions and asking people to donate money if they can is my suggestion (as well?).
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Hi, I made the app. Thanks for posting this, chalsdk.
Most of the motivation really was just wanting a better gaming experience for myself and the community. Logging in and doing basic tasks on a phone is really daunting, so this is aimed to help with a lot of that--it doesn't do everything, but it does most of the things you do during the day while you're at work or unable to get to a desktop. The app took me a little over a year to make in my spare time, so I don't think it's unreasonable to charge a little for it. I set the price to $1.99; reading the forums a year ago, I remember that was what the userbase said they'd be willing to pay, and that feels fair to me. I'm sorry you feel jilted for paying for an app for a free game. If creating the app was a trivial task, then I'd love to release it for free, but the truth of it is that this has taken months to create, and it'll take many more months to do all of the things I'd like it to do--not to mention the work needed to keep the app up-to-date with the game. If people do adopt the app, I'd be really interested in getting feedback and implement the features that the community wants.
I don't know if the owners of utopia are on the forums much, but I'd love to coordinate with them if they're interested. I played utopia back in the early 2000s when I was in high school, so this game will always have a fond place in my heart. I respect the hard work and dedication they've put into Utopia to keep it alive. I hope the app breathes some more life into the userbase-numbers.
Should have run it by the developers before even publishing it, let alone charging for it. You're prolly in breach of some copyrights.
Ah well, we'll see soon enough when Bishop sees this thread. My guess is that he'll ask you to remove it from the store or make it free.
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Great work on the app, I am glad one is out there now.
I do worry about the legality of it all as you didn't co-ordinate with the devs or at least Bishop
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Lets gets things Right..
NOTHING in life is FREE!
We NEEDED the app for over a year now, and peaple have been *****ing about it!
And it shoud bring extra peaple to the Game, so the "Utopia Lords" risk nothing, as utopia is always borderline unplayerble on a phone in the first place!
They where NEVER going to fund money into making it, they made that perfektly clear!
If anything they shoud by happy! It will bring extra players!
However I agree that perhaps he shoud have talked with bishop and others first..But it might be able to save a fastly dying game, as soo many talked about!
If it shoud be free & live of donation can be argued.. In essens I agree with both stances. but perhaps donation had been better
id be seriously disappointed at bishop & devs if they would take that route.. thats been the ONLY thing whole community agrees on that we need a mobile app & the cost of developing the app was constantly brought up as an answer to the request.. if anything, this guy should be shown gratitude and put all possible effort to get this app running to full extent with all utilities possible..
p.s. as for him charging money for it, i believe the cost was told to be like 50k$ or something? this guy asks for 2$ per user and thats 10k$ if we had 5k players and all were using it.. i dont see why would devs be grumpy about it, for getting something ppl ask for done without their effort nor money..
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