Dea Morti
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Posted - 2011.06.16 12:56:00 -
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Hi CCP guys!
First of all I have to quote a very true comment of this thread:
 Originally by: Kronus Heilgar
You are charging people who work for free to make your game better you asshats
And here come my thoughts.
What the f.u.c.k is wrong with you guys? Why are your so terrible in marketing your product?
Let's check some facts:
3rd Party Development is not violating the Eve Online EULA at point 11 (PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) at all! (too long to quote EULA
Nobody is takes your intellectual property and uses it for his own business.
You want a fee for something where you already get one. For understanding I quote the EvE Online EULA Point 2/A paragraph 4:
Accounts may not be used for business purposes. Access to the System and playing EVE is intended for your personal entertainment, enjoyment and recreation, and not for corporate, business, commercial or income-seeking activities. Business entities and anyone who is acting for or on behalf of a business or for business purposes may not establish an Account, access the System or play EVE. Accessing the System or using the Game for commercial, business or income-seeking purposes is strictly prohibited.
This leads me to my next point...
Donations how ever they may look like, doesn't matter if they are real money or ISK, are voluntarily. That means if someone is coding in his spare time some really cool stuff and provides it for free(all those awesome services like EveMon, EvEHQ, dotlan, eve-central, chribba stuff at all, and so on) and another guy likes it so much that he would even give something back to the coder, thats no profit oriented business at all and not violating the recent Eula paragraph I quoted.
You should show more respect to this guys! In fact they are working for you! They provide a network of useful tools making your product even better and OMG it's free for you and the rest of the community. You have not to pay a single kr=na (Icelandic currency) for their work. Instead of trying to charge them you should think about a service to pay them 99$ a year for what they are doing for YOU!
Conclusion:
It's absolutely hilarious that you even think about that 3rd party developers should pay you. Think about of hiring them as full time or freelancers. You have to pay them no they have to pay you!
The best way for you guys is to delete this hogwash idea and find your way back from moronism!
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