Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Derek da Silva" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english,scee.yaroze.mydemos Subject: Re: URGENT! OPM Games Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:35:42 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <7nesq6$i4m14@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <7n7n4f$6tn6@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7ndks5$i4m7@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pFDs04a01.client.global.net.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:4367 scee.yaroze.mydemos:463 > I gave up needing to prove myself years ago. (after getting my honours > degree in physics and masters in opto-electronics and optical > information processing) > So I'm not some snot-nosed kid who just wants to complain. I am a > reasonably well-educated 31 year old who wants to see a bit more effort > from SONY (it's called after sales care in most countries) It seems to me you signed up with unrealistic expectations of what Net Yaroze is about. >Why can't we just find a publisher now? Again because of a restrictive >measure! http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/yaroze/newmembers/terms.htm Why did you sign up having read the terms and conditions? Commercial distribution was never an option. You expect publishers/Sony to distribute your game free of charge and pay you royalties?! Why should they? Unless the game is an inspired work of genius, there's just no way a publisher could ever hope to recover it's costs (duplication, distribution, advertising, QA etc) and make any money out of it. And making money is, after all, the only incentive for doing /anything/... I'm no graphics artist/sound engineer either, so do the best I can. I never expected to be spoon-fed by SONY anyway. > >You are not going to get paid! You made a mistake in buying a NY if you > >expect to get paid for anything you do with it. It's a HOBBY. It's not > >work, and it's not a job. This is the bottom line. I look forward to playing your game :-) Derek > Tony