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Through all the drama that’s been going on over the last couple of days, no doubt spearheaded by Mark’s announcement of YoYo Games’ new involvement in Game Maker development, I think the funniest thing has to be the irony of the name and the various pros and cons people have been arguing over. It goes up and down. How smart am I, huh? Heh heh.

I don’t really want to cover the same territory many of you already have already discussed to death, on the GMC and elsewhere, so instead I want to point out some of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen thus far in the ongoing discussion. In no particular order, and anonymously presented, here they are. I know this seems like a long blog, but bear with me… there are some real gems down there, and I’ve just got to say something about them, heh.

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Hate it.

Mark i thought GM was your thing. You disappointed me. I really don't care if the development of GM is slow. I can wait. I don't trust these xbox "YoYo" people.

Mark you let me down.

Yes, the Xbox-YoYo people are coming to ruin everything. To me, this sounds like someone who is afraid of evil Xbox-YoYo space men coming down from Mars to destroy human civilization. And I bet the government sanctioned the entire thing. Get out your tin foil hats.

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I registered to help gm not yo yo games. I agree with^^^ him

And I don’t like an admin that joined today

Unconditional hate for the new admin who joined today. The same admin who is responsible for transferring over everyone’s identity to the new site. Oh, he forgot to transfer one of them? Was it the guy who said he hated him? [:D]

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it seems good to me that is if they dont make it sell only..

because then the development of gm would boost

I think this guy is talking about getting rid of the non-registered version… you know, the non-sell only version.

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my post disipered did some one delete it

A this topic is to post a opinion I did and you did mark is probably going to post some thing

if you try to change a opinion the more it gets logged into there head

I would like to see this completed I don’t like it but I did not like it when the made us do gm in school

you don'y know what you like till you try it

I deleted it. And I deleted it because, like this one, it made no sense.

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Keep deleting my posts, and Ill keep posting. FredFredrickson, once again, thinking you are god. So, If everyone is allowed to the opinion, which you think is right (i.e. agreeing with the move) why, can someone like myself, and morph not post disagreeing?

I don’t even think I need to say anything about this one, hehe. The guy got his posted deleted because he called the people who did not disagree with him “losers.â€? Apparently, that’s the kind of opinion we are missing on the GMC. The furious, name-calling kind of opinion.

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I don't think this is a move in the right direction - People will take over and completly change the program and it will go from easy to difficult - You will lose 90% of your market which is aimed at people getting started or who don't want to spend months coding in C ! Chances are if they port GM to C++, GML will not exist! Maybe D&D will remain, but coding will be what in C++ too ? That would suck.

Now keep in mind money is no object, I don't care if prices go up, I think GM is cheap anyways and more should be charged for the product that is not the point.

Moving to C is the right thing for GM itself and the runner, but keep existing GML commands, don't transform the entire GML into C for crying out loud, that would be a DISASTER.

This is not a good day for GM users, this will spell GM's death - eventually that other company will take over, mangle GM and call it a new name, demand loyalty fees and add more restrictions and possibly spyware & adware to your compiled EXEs ! Remember nothing is FREE, no company will offer to host your stuff for FREE, there has to be something in return like FORCE you to use adware, force you to send them your GM6 and taking full ownership.

After years of work, 7 major revisions, and probably a lot of personal time (and initially, money) lost on the project, Mark is ready to hand it over to the huge corporation that is YoYo Games, breaking the seventh seal, and opening up the gateway to hell. I really wonder sometimes, when I read posts like this: how does one reply to a post in English when he seemingly has no capacity to read it? Where did anyone say that GM was definitely going to be re-written in C++? And why would that mean the death of GML?

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It's a major take over don't you see ? The days of freedom of releasing your games freely are now over - be prepared for new policies and royalty fees and more severe restrictions..

BUT on a more positive note, GM was headed for death anyways, either way - I mean with the major disappointment that is GM7 as a lot of people found out, who were expecting major changes, realise that GM was dying - and it is………so now with this merger, it's going to die but faster

And YoYo claims they will host your game FREE- I do know a thing or two about hosting and bandwidth costs - you don't honestly believe these guys do you ? Nothing is FREE - I can see it already the small print "All materials submitted are now full property of YoYo Games" I can feel it - So you work hard to make a game and then it becomes full property of someone else. I don't think they will host your games FREE without in return inserting ads, pop-ups etc… in your games, the LAST thing people want………

I think there is a conspiracy here. Mergers are never a good thing for the small company being gobbled up…….

Free hosting? No, no site could ever manage something like that… *cough* 64 Digits *cough* This guy really needs to wipe all the stupid-dust off his magical crystal ball - the view of the future he is seeing is idiotic, at best.

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Wait. So unregistered users of GM 5 and 6 have to pay for GM7?

Er, huh? Was it being offered to them for free before? Did I miss something?

I think that’s about all I can handle right now… But rest assured, there is a lot more where that came from. Believe it or not, I didn’t even have to dip into the trash forum to pull any of these little nuggets up – no, every single one of these posts currently resides in the actual topic. And I wonder how people get confused, huh? [;)]

In other news, I wanted to report that progress has been good with Aces High Over Verlor Island. I am about halfway done with adding the three single player modes to the game, and I have finally received some music from my composer, so I have added that as well… it sounds great! I am really excited to release the game, but pending how this whole YYG thing goes down, I might just end up waiting until the new forum has settled in, providing my progress continues on at the same pace.

Anyway, until next time… never fear for the future of 64 Digits when YYG is complete. It’ll be filled with people like the authors of the quotes above, and so far as I have seen, hardly anyone here writes like those guys. [:P] Thanks for reading!

ludamad 17 years, 9 months ago