Post by Marojoram on Apr 12, 2013 10:16:47 GMT -5
Hi,
After reading the news on the main page I am quite thoroughly disappointed in what has come to pass. I feel quite cheated and in some senses swindled as part of the "1%" which supported this project and paid the $6 on the Play Store.
Effectively I paid for a "promise" of being able to run Starcraft. A promise which considering the meager rate any developments occurred seems unlikely of being fulfilled. It would be fair to say most were enticed by the prospect of running Blizzard games and other Win32 hits than a middling Sierra title.
As a coder, you, Dan, appear to be extremely talented and the need to have a sustainable livelihood trumps anything else and it is good your abilities have given you gainful opportunity. Simply the fact I could run Starcraft (albeit with bugs) on my phone was a marvel and in my memory, harkened back to days when I first used DOS based emulators like NESticle, Genecyst, and Snes97. The possibilities you presented capture the imagination as it was something not seen before.
To know this project is effectively abandoned due to pirated copies and it being non-sustainable are all well and good, however, I also contend you never released a complete product and this is my gripe. People like myself and the so-called "1%" paid for nothing more than tantalization. Others would have likely hedged their bets because a product that could actually run Starcraft and boast that proudly was yet to be seen. Given the phrasing in the Play Store it seemed like people who paid were doing so to support the development, an act of faith, because you had yet to distribute something which is beyond a "proof of concept" but there was a promise of this coming.
I don't dispute your need to earn a living, or your annoyance with bootleggers, or the amazing technical strides you made with Winulator already but as someone who put cash down, meager as it is, to support what you were doing and now being told to pretty much not expect it leaves a sour taste.
Rant over.
After reading the news on the main page I am quite thoroughly disappointed in what has come to pass. I feel quite cheated and in some senses swindled as part of the "1%" which supported this project and paid the $6 on the Play Store.
Effectively I paid for a "promise" of being able to run Starcraft. A promise which considering the meager rate any developments occurred seems unlikely of being fulfilled. It would be fair to say most were enticed by the prospect of running Blizzard games and other Win32 hits than a middling Sierra title.
As a coder, you, Dan, appear to be extremely talented and the need to have a sustainable livelihood trumps anything else and it is good your abilities have given you gainful opportunity. Simply the fact I could run Starcraft (albeit with bugs) on my phone was a marvel and in my memory, harkened back to days when I first used DOS based emulators like NESticle, Genecyst, and Snes97. The possibilities you presented capture the imagination as it was something not seen before.
To know this project is effectively abandoned due to pirated copies and it being non-sustainable are all well and good, however, I also contend you never released a complete product and this is my gripe. People like myself and the so-called "1%" paid for nothing more than tantalization. Others would have likely hedged their bets because a product that could actually run Starcraft and boast that proudly was yet to be seen. Given the phrasing in the Play Store it seemed like people who paid were doing so to support the development, an act of faith, because you had yet to distribute something which is beyond a "proof of concept" but there was a promise of this coming.
I don't dispute your need to earn a living, or your annoyance with bootleggers, or the amazing technical strides you made with Winulator already but as someone who put cash down, meager as it is, to support what you were doing and now being told to pretty much not expect it leaves a sour taste.
Rant over.
pirated Winulator is realy F****.... 
sorry for that
