punkUser wrote:Don't we have the fundamental issue that we don't really have an easy, legal way to distribute the game even if we convince people to be interested first though? It's one thing to have a fan community provide a download link informally, it's quite another to be doing paid advertising for it...
Yea I kinda think this is the biggest issue. Making the game more easily available. Because if we wanted to a bunch of us could post links to Myth all over the internet, game forums, Facebook, twitter and we could also do banner ads etc. This would probably get quite a few people interested but then the hard part is them getting a copy of the game. Even though they can buy copies from ebay or whatever that involves more work for someone and thats where they would probably lose interest. It needs to be available as a legal download so people can easily get it. I had asked I think last year at the Marius forum if anyone has every contacted Take2 to ask them if they could make Myth available as a paid download. I was told it was a good idea but no one knew if anyone had.
I think that would be the first thing we need to do is see if Take2 will make Myth available as a paid download. For Take2 though if they did that there would be maintenance and expenses involved. I think our best bet would be for anyone in the Myth community that has ever had contact with Take2 (maybe some people at Magma) to ask Take2 about it. Then agree that Magma or whoever would take care of everything involve in hosting it and all Take2 would have to do is collect the money. I think that if we could do that then it would be more worthwhile to start advertising for Myth. Until then I think it will be hard to get a lot of new people.
Edit: The download version would also have to be the current update maybe some of the most common plugins and set up to connect to the servers right away. So that people that DL'ed could just install it an play. Whoever hosted it may have to set it up so that they host the DL and collect the money with Take2 having full access to the DL site so that they could see how many times it was DL'ed and there being only one exclusive place where it could be legally DL'ed. It being set up so that whoever hosted it did everything and just sent the money over to Take2 once a month or something but Take2 being able to monitor everything so that they knew they were getting paid for each DL. Everything would have to be completely transparent. I think the only way to get Take2 to agree would be for them to have to do nothing at all but have money sent to them once a month or whatever and them being able to know every time it was DL'ed so they couldnt get scammed.
Is the trial version updated? Can someone DL the trial version and log in an play right away with everyone else on Marius or GoS? That would be a start anyhow. If updating the trial version is allowed.
