Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "J. Pretorius" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Net Yaroze 2 ? Please. Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 22:53:31 -0700 Organization: @Home Network Lines: 40 Message-ID: <373522DB.C2D5AF09@home.net> References: <7gaug1$2mq3@scea> <7gpfti$iko2@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <37304b8c.2367490@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <7gqkr0$iko4@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7h134o$2qc6@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.64.205.80.bc.wave.home.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en]C-AtHome0402 (Win95; U) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:1363 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:3998 Nigel, I really like your idea of a commercial outlet for amateur developers. I wonder what would happen if Sony offered to pay Yaroze members for games published in OPM, like anywhere from $200-$15000 per title. I truly believe they could generate a *frenzy* of excitement that would result in a lot of good work, and OPM would turn into a showcase magazine featuring lots of free games. Everytime someone made a game better than the previous best, they would be given more money thereby raising the stakes and adding to the excitement. Assuming that Sony budgets $100,000 for prize money over a 1 year period, and that OPM makes about $1 profit per magazine, OPM would only need to increase its number of readers by about 8000 to cover the costs. Surely with several free, great games offered each month, they would get the attention of another 8000 readers! Nigel Critten wrote: > OK none of this is going to happen, we can only hope we get a Net Yaroze 2 > program, we can only hope we can connect to it using USB or FireWire (kill > serial now, yes I want to start a serial killer campaign) we can only hope > we get access to a wider selection of libraries, we can only hope the > manuals are better, we can only hope we don't have the libraries stuck on a > CD so they can't be updated or expanded, we can only hope for a decent > toolset, we can only hope the UKs car prices come in line with the rest of > Europe we can only hope for peace. You get what I mean. I would like to enlist in your serial killing campaign :) I must have downloaded to the Yaroze about 5000 times in the past 2 years. At an everage time of 30 seconds per download, that's 42 hours of my life - My God that would have given me time to add color to my Pong clone! The only way we're going to get what we want is by creating a Yaroze lobby group. If every active member pitches in $10 ... Hmmmm, perhaps next time the Edinburgh Yaroze group has a meeting, they could try and bribe George Bain into making a "wise" corporate decision on our behalf. From what I here a couple of beers should do the trick :) James