Fair enough, I respect your personal opinion so here's my take fwiw: I'd say your post is kind of a dick move since you are not accounting for my additional personal time to provide technical support for all these mods. I can't even get folks to follow a simple two-step installation process as it is (and one of the two steps is simply installing the VN) so when folks go willy-nilly doing whatever that most don't understand they bombard me constantly with "your mod sux, it's broke" when it has nothing to do with the mod at all... it's all the novice/non-tech folks that force me to keep things on an even playing field so true TS can be addressed.
Then account for the additional personal time I invest to revoke the mod being swiped (taken) and listed on dozens of other foreign nefarious sites I have to deal with who were changing the name and credits of the mod to whatever they desire. I won't even mention all the other BS I had or still have to deal with. Also regarding theft - this is after all a pirate site and there a plenty of pirates here who steal from fellow pirates sailing on the same damn ship (site). So, yes, most are trying to steal, most aren't using the forum as a social site.
This gets us to what I perceive the (mostly) rational options are:
- If you have a spare 6+ hrs per day everyday then I can hire you to provide technical support and foreign admin policing for all of that... but the pay absolutely sucks at $0/hr.
- I go back to how it was before the brand: continue to write mods for myself (which is the only reason I do it to begin with) and simply don't distribute any of them publicly.
- You can code your own personal whatever to do what you desire to suit your needs or preferences.
Bottom line is that I can't please everyone and I really don't care to. At the end of the day I don't owe anyone anything tbh. I write mods for my personal use, and me electing to supply a few publicly already costs me 60+hrs per week every week. I don't have the additional time nor desire to be full-time tech support on top of that already ridiculous amount of personal time constantly being reinvested for nothing in return.
I realize this post likely reads as I'm being an asshole but please consider my point of view when establishing your opinion about how I package the retail product... and also consider that I'm really damn tired while writing this post. Regards, sincerely.
