Jomi;2409979 said:
I see that the site is becoming more and more commercial. That's not a critic, that's a fact...more and more advertisement banners, more and more things that are not directly related to the fifa game etc..etc..( same with socceraccess a.k.a soccergaming )
No doubt about it, but isn't that a question of the sites becoming victims of their own success?? More interest means more users who suck more bandwidth requiring larger servers etc. Someone has to pay for all that and advertising then becomes a necessary evil for most. I'm sure that Dave Witts is just as aware of the negative impact of that as we users are.
Jomi said:
Then came CEP with its crypted database ...( first time in history )... I wrote to Dave at the time to tell him my displeasure...He did nothing...
I've never understood the fuss over that (it took me all of twenty minutes to figure out what was being done, in order to add support for CEP derived careers to EAFFAnalyser, and it could be worked around with about thirty seconds work after installing the CEP) but I really don't see that it was up to Dave to do anything about it other than pass on users' discontent to OckHAM. Of course he could have opted to dump the CEP altogether, but you could reasonably argue (especially from his position) that that would be counter-productive.
Jomi said:
And now I'm upset with the shareware thing ( 14 euros it's crazy ) . I'm not sure it 's the sole decision of Rinaldo
Well, we have no evidence one way or the other, so I guess it is a moot point unless Dave or Rinaldo can provide a factual comment.
Jomi said:
Let's say CM will be downloaded 50.000 times or just 10.000 times because a lot of people won't accept to pay for it , that makes a minimum of 140 .000 euros...!!!!!!!For one person ...Do you find this realistic
Actually no, but for a completely different reason. I've seen a figure of 200,000 bandied about for CM downloads, but I'd be prepared to bet that translates to less than 20,000 active installations and no more than 2,000 regular users (of the kind that might be prepared to pay for particular features). Even if half of those cough up we are only talking about 14,000 euros, which doesn't seem like enough to retire on.
Jomi said:
as Zefilio writes in another post , I'm not sure that EA will let that happen without a contract...
and as I've responded to his post, I don't think he's right, because we are talking about editing data and I don't see anything in CM that infringes on EA's IP in any meaningful way (though that's not to say that that would stop them sending 'cease and desist' notices, or even sending the boys round)
Jomi said:
The solution is the donation banner...
No dispute from me, and I reckon it would make more sense from Rinaldo's perspective, because that way you don't have to worry about a registered user base that expect support when the program has bugs, and it allows folk to contribute as much as they feel able to (rather than setting a fixed price on his work that might well be beyond the means of some)
Anyway, thanks for explaining the sweetpatch comment, I was worried that I'd missed something
Royce;2410091 said:
Everyone b!tching about having to pay for it, the answer is two fold: A) Get a goddamn job or
Don't use CM08. BOOYA. Suck on that.
I nearly let that pass - the oxygen of publicity and all that - but in the end I decided I could not because it is so hugely insensitive. I am sure there are folk on here who already have a job but for whom 14 euros would represent a large portion of their wages (not everyone comes from a nice rich western economy) and in general I don't see the argument being money as such, but a general principle. Next time, please think before you post, and try to show some empathy.
B9Goal;2410583 said:
Besides making your own formations in game, there isn't really much of a difference between the 07 and 08 databases. Or is there?
Assuming that it hasn't changed from the demo, then no (I don't have the game, and don't intend to drop thirty quid for a roster update and a handful of gameplay tweaks) but there are some significant changes to the player data that would require a major re-work of the attribute page.