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Originally Posted by Jeysie
Well, obviously they *did* decide to make the same offer to other fangames, so...  |
Jeysie, your logic escapes me. You're claiming:
A. KQIX had fan support;
B. Vivendi made the KQIX team a lousy offer (you have not established a causal relationship between A & B, but you choose to assume one);
C. SQ7 did not have fan support;
D. Vivendi later made the SQ7 team the same offer; therefore
E. Both fangames "benefitted" from KQIX's fan support.
Even if one assumes the causal relationship between A & B, it doesn't begin to establish one between A and D, and the conclusion you're drawing is built on more than one unfounded assumption.
Curiously, you're also stating that PR is essential to a fangame unless you're going to keep a completely low profile. That's odd because you just got done arguing the opposite: you're claiming (as an assumption) that the efforts of KQIX's fanbase set a precedent whereby Vivendi will automatically make the same offer to every fangame regardless of fan response. If that's the case, then it DOESN'T MATTER how much PR you have or how energized your fanbase is: you'll get the same offer from Vivendi regardless. So all that PR no longer buys you anything...except, as you suggest, other intangibles that have nothing to do with whether or not you get to proceed with your project.
Let's give you your A&B assumption for the sake of argument, and also give you your assumption that due to the KQIX fanbase response, Vivendi will now make this lousy offer to everyone. If we assume both of those, then we should be damning the KQIX fan response for making it HARDER for every fangame to get produced from now on.
Perhaps we should both just agree that keeping a COMPLETELY low profile is (and, in SQ7's case, WOULD have been) the only proven, established way to go unless one is ready, willing, and able to sign over all the work to the legitimate copyright holder, who will not compensate for the work.
And maybe we should leave it at that.
