Originally by: Blasphemour

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I read people here blaming CCP for not helping them.
They have apparently promoted Capsuleer on FanFest, and talked about maybe doing some kind of business.
From the developpers I hear nothing but 'we want to make money off of it'.
If you start something up, make sure you know for sure you can monetize it if that is what you want.
In this case it is not CCP who is to blame for disappointing users, it is the dev's of Capsuleer.

You complain about spending 6 hours a day on developping a new version, while not getting payed for it.
No, you don't get paid for hobby projects. Hardly anybody has that luxury. What's the problem?
Maybe you should've inquired with CCP and talked to them with a demo version BEFORE releasing it to the world.

There's a whole bunch of applications for all kind of platforms, which do the same or alot more than Capsuleer does. They are all free. All those developpers are not complaining about the API changes (they are making it better ffs, and you complain that you don't get payed for updating an application that you wrote on your own initiative, CCP didn't hire you to do it!), they just read the documentation, see if they can work with it and otherwise give up or ask other people for help.

You make it sound like CCP didn't live up to contracts or anything, while this is not the case.
They might have looked into opportunities of supporting you but I cannot imagine that they where ever going to let you make money on their IP. This also would have set a precedent for other developpers who would've come to CCP for the same agreement. If one gets payed for it, others want it too.
That being sad, even if you would have gotten the right to charge for it, people would have found something else, since there are loads of applications for free, that do the same or more.

Now, stop crying.

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