Leanthar - 10/13/2006 3:10 AM
We are not allowed to make a penny from NwN/NwN2 and we can not give "benefits" for people in game or anything like that for donations. Our hands are tied so that we can not make a penny and all money (other than a donation) that is made via NwN/NwN2 goes to Bioware/Obsidian/Atari/WoTC. That is how the system works.
Yes, that's what I suspected.
HOWEVER,...
I read in one of the developer interviews (linked from somewhere in these Forums, I think)
where he talked about how the "meshes" would make hugely numerous maps impractical. He goes on to say
(I paraphrase from memory), "We are counting on the NWN community to help figure out solutions
to this problem."
I think Bioware/Obsidian/Atari/WoTC might be convinced to support the Layo community.
If you, Dan Scott, collect a nominal manditory donation at non-profit levels (just enough to
pay for hosting and a new server every 6 months). And if you send in a check to B/O/A/W as
per the licencing agreement they might be convinced to simply return the check as a donation
to the Layonara Community.
The upside to B/O/A/W goes like this:
1. Several hundred people buy NWN2 who would otherwise have good reason to skip.
2. A dozen or more developer/mapmakers with known track record work on making NWN2 more robust.
3. Lots of goodwill to the map-making community for truely small anounts of money.
4. If too many people start asking for the same kind of deal B/O/A/W reserves the option
to renegotioate.
Do you think they would go for it?
Would enforcing "manditory donations" take all the fun out of it for you?
Would all the accounting take up too much time?
Just some ideas...
-Tribble
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