It concerns me how many folks on this forum have enough disposable income to throw out claims of being willing to buy anything... What are the po' folks among us supposed to do?
How many homebrews have been or will be released for the PCE? Only 3 have been released and just a few are announced so you don't have to be rich to get them all. Orion said his game would be 15€ only. It's not such a big deal, isn't it?
Yeah, but a lot of folks here are professing to want to pony up for stuff that they are only interested in because it is on the PCE, suggesting they're not really interested in the game itself. That seems like a waste to me. I'm not ponying up for MSR and I only have a copy of Insanity because I won it. I do plan to try to pay for Atlantean, because that is a game I think I want to play enough to own. If you guys are interested in charity, great. I'm interested in good software that I want to play
It's no different than buying random PCE games you come across and giving them a shot. It's much better than it was bitd, when you really were blindly buying many imports for large amounts of money. I ordered Snatcher and Last Armageddon from a mail order store, who called back at the last minute and said that they were sold out of LA and they only had one other RPG: Cyber City OEDO 808. I would have been much happier with Mysterious Song in 1993 than I was with OEDO 808 and MS is several times cheaper.
But if you're a poor PCE player who hasn't had the luxury of obtaining most of the games you want, yet your primary concern is quality, you should stay away from Atlantean and almost any other homebrew game and instead buy several high quality commercial PCE games for the same money.
For many people, the price of these homebrew games is insignificant, so it shouldn't matter to anyone who's not interested, whether they can afford it or not. It costs no more than watching a film at a theatre while enjoying a drink and popcorn. After which you have nothing tangible to show for your money other than a fading memory.
It's not like people are being asked to invest in a game that hasn't even been started yet.
For many of us these games are also works of art. That alone makes them worthwhile to me. Also, the experience of buying a new PCE game is priceless for me. I don't line up for midnight launches of blockbuster games. But the thrill of holding and playing a new PCE game is still as powerful as it was twenty years ago. I still do not blink while the PUSH RUN BUTTON
! is frozen as a game loads for the first time. The moment the game comes up for the first time is when it comes alive for me and I'll never have that experience enough times.
Topic: Orion's new PCE homebrew project! (Read 595 times)
