Re: [GD-General] Pyrogon Postmortem

[Colin F. <cp...@ea...>]

> www.plimus.com
> www.esellerate.net

Fantastic!  This world is not all crazy!

Thanks, Mike, for pointing out those companies.  Honestly, just
seeing these sites, and seeing your comment ("we've been selling
our game engine through these sites for 10 months now have been 
100% rock-solid"), is like a breath of fresh air.

Wow, I kind of wish I spent the past four months trying to 
bring a PC game to market instead of the BREW game with a
giant question mark about whether or not I'll see a single
penny for my efforts.

My next game will be for the PC, that's for sure...

Again, thank you for the links, Mike.  As you say,
"no crap-ass publisher, no 'middle man'. the 10% ecommerce
fee and that's it. no bs."  I'm amazed how closely those
sites come to what I was imagining.

Awesome.  Not many things go in my anti-cynicism column,
but this is definitely going to cancel out a lot of stuff
in the other half of the karmic spreadsheet.

--- Colin

P.S.:

However, don't you find the "Realtime-Spy" product featured
on the home page of http://www.plimus.com to be a little 
creepy? :-)  I guess the product description proves that
this site is not biased about products they carry:

    Spytech Realtime-Spy is the latest in cutting-edge
    computer monitoring spy software technology that
    allows you to monitor ANY PC from ANYWHERE.
    Realtime-Spy is remotely deployable (no physical
    installation needed), and its activity logs are
    accessible from anywhere - regardless if the remote
    PC is online or not. Realtime-Spy logs all keystrokes,
    websites, applications ran, e-mails sent, and more.

Claims like these make me chuckle.  Why not just monitor
the PCs of CEOs and make a killing on the stock market?

I'm waiting for the day when everyone just watches everyone
else, and it just confirms that we are all human beings.
The product might as well be called "Spy on Yourself!" --
it would come with a mirror, an echo box so you would 
hear your own speech repeated moments later ("Real Time!"),
and would include software that would monitor your keystrokes
and even highlight/underline spelling errors in red and
grammatical errors in green, and pop up an "Assistant" to
even help you compose a letter...No, dammit, I'm not writing
a letter!  Go away!...Then you'll look in the supplied 
mirror and laugh at your victim, who is totally being 
spied upon, and being harassed and humiliated by automated
spelling and grammar checking.  Poor fool -- I see and hear
everything he (or she) does, and I have total access to 
everything the guy (or girl) owns.

Hee, hee!