[DGD] DGD & MySQL

[Noah Gibbs]

  Sadly, the cheap license never really took off.  Dworkin offered it for awhile, but nobody ever paid.  So he stopped offering it, and just has the expensive one now.

  You *could* go the Skotos route, though.  You'd get a large userbase trying out your stuff, and they don't charge you a license fee for the driver.  On the down side, you'd have to convince Skotos you were a good bet for hosting, but that shouldn't be *too* bad...  You only get paid if your stuff is popular, but that's pretty much true regardless, it's just that you don't *lose* money like you would striking out on your own and paying your own costs ;-)

--- On Fri, 9/19/08, chris . <psych_mayo at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: chris . <psych_mayo at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [DGD] DGD & MySQL
> To: "All about Dworkin's Game Driver" <dgd at dworkin.nl>
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 6:13 AM
> > (no economics or politics please, it's
> > something better discussed privately).
> 
> Sorry:p
> 
> Not so sure a competitor to DGD should be mentioned in this
> context.  Seems to approach a line that shouldnt be crossed,
> that being promotion of the dgd competition on the dgd
> forum.
> 
> I would focus on making money through a game rather than a
> server, if for no other reason than that its easier to build
> a player pool on a mud, than a pool of builders using your
> mud driver.  I think theres more potential going that route
> for monetary gain.
> 
> I also remember Dworkin being open to a partial license. 
> There was a 100000$ license, and another one he was
> considering, something like 100$ monthly, for a small-scale
> mud.  I don't remember the details, but quintessentially
> it would allow a small or new mud to generate money with a
> relatively small player pool.  I am a bit curious about
> these details now, even though itll easily be more than a
> year before i am ready to go such a route.  Its been awhile
> since ive heard dworkin mention about licensing.
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