A humble suggestion to the EB 2 team

[tupan]

Hi, I would like make a humble suggestion to the staff of EB 2 to mark my arrival to EB 2.

Now, EB is by my opinion the best mod ever to be introduced into the world of gaming, the only mod that can be mentioned in the same sentence is the "Battlegroup 42" mod for battlefield 1942.

Now the most shocking thing about a mod as complex as EB is that it's free, but that also means that the development of the EB 2 entirely depends on the good will of the developers to use their precious free time to use their divine mod skills without any payment. . .wich is the main reason the project lasts so long.

What I propose is to do the same thing as the "Arsenal of Democracy" team did for Hearts of iron 2: develop the game as a mod(or expansion in the case of AoD) and put a humble price of some dozens of dollars to the download of it.

By doing that the developers would get the reward/money they more than deserve and every EB fan would gladly pay such fine because of the most important thing and that is the development itself would significantly speed up and the fans would get EB 2 far sooner.

Hope im not offending eventual opensource fanatics in the team

[micko]

I wuld glady pay for EB2.

[Horatius Flaccus]

I believe that - if they even want that, which I think they don't - they aren't allowed bij SEGA and CA to sell their mod.

[DeathFinger]

EB is by my opinion the best mod ever to be introduced into the world of gaming,

Thanks in the name of the team

I believe that - if they even want that, which I think they don't - they aren't allowed bij SEGA and CA to sell their mod.

Right and right.

BTW even if, in a parallel world, we would have decided to do so, just imagine that to have more free time we would have to stop our IRL work to dedicate ourselves entirely to EB. And so we would be forced to put a price higher than a douzain of dollars

But, well, the quality of free access of some work is a propper part of itself, so is for EB.

[tupan]

Hmm, illegal to ask payment, yes, but here is an idea:
It is not illegal to send a "gift", HA!
So we just need to put our minds together and construct a way to systematically send gifts in order to simultaneously receive/download a LARGE "gift" from the EB tim...
Come on people...ideas?

Another idea is to create a donation system in witch the developers would gain money in return for spending more time on EB 2...of course that would mean that the mentioned time would increase/decrease along with the amount of the money received in the barbaric piggy bank.(of course the culture of the piggy bank is on the EB team to decide)
The investors would obviously have to count on the honor of the EB team to hold their end of the bargain, but since they spent the last decade doing pure modding good for free I have no doubt in them.

[Ludens]

Or why don't you just send a donation through PayPal?

The only way for the team to spend more time on the mod is for them to quit their jobs. Not only is that a bad idea in today's economy, we would need to collect an enormous amount of money to make that worthwhile for them. So I really don't see that working.