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Exactly, you don’t want 1 million clones. Epic is doing a good job and they are not changing their well thought plan because some hobbyist teenagers.
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Did you read anything in my post that implies that Epic isn’t doing a good job or that they should change their plan? I don’t even know what their plans are outside of what’s been publicly announced. I certainly didn’t intend to imply any disapproval of Epic. Heck, I’m practically a fanboy of those fine folk.
But, honestly, I do want a million clones. I don’t want them released to the public, but I do want people making them, because doing is the best way to learn. Great game developers weren’t born as great game developers. The more people we have learning to create games, the more great game programmers we’re going to have a few years from now, and I see that as a good thing.
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A game developer is willing to pay more than mere $19, serious or not.
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Yeah, but tomorrow’s game developers? Most of them can be found in that pool of today’s “hobbyist teenagers”. I dare say, many of the people in the forums could, at one time, be called “hobbyist teenagers”.
When those future game developers decide what platform to use a few years from now, after they have a few clones under their belt and ready to get more serious, they’re going to choose the game platform they already know.
I’m not saying they should open the floodgates, I’m just saying that there are good people on the other side of the floodgate and maybe putting a little thought into getting some of those people through isn’t a bad thing.