From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" Date: 2008-04-01T16:50:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Web-based games? On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Marc Heiler wrote: > > I don't see the point in creating a game that people won't pay money to play. > > I guess the problem at hand here is not that people want to create a > game that is free, or where you have to pay (or pay for extras etc..) > ,but rather what focus one sets for a game or creating one. My motivation is the following: I love games, I'm more into card and board games (Magic the gathering, settlers of catan, ticket to ride, citadels, caylus, tigris: the eurogames in general) than computer games, though. I love programming. I love playing turn based online games, cause I don't have 2 hours to play a real time game. So I started my personal project of building a web to play all those games the way I would like (well, I'd rather play them face to face, but currently don't have the time to do that :-). I don't have the motivation of making profit with a site like this. In fact, I think that if I ever finish something, I will have a real issue of placing it online, for the reason that hosting, bandwith, etc all cost money. I also think it's difficult to do live through donations, or in a model like mine, to make people pay. In this thread I've read about playchess, which seems to have a premium account where your games are rated, etc. and that could be a good idea, because people love to see rankings and how they fare against each other... Also, in my case, several people have mentioned possible legal issues with taking an existing commercial game and making an online version. So that's another thing to take into account. Jesus.