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This is kind of sad to read, that someone building and maintaining a free product feels compelled to over apologize for want burning out. It may just be my cyn
by Vaslo 5y ago
This is kind of sad to read, that someone building and maintaining a free product feels compelled to over apologize for want burning out.
It may just be my cynical view of the world but it just seems like more and more people are demanding higher and higher levels of service for things that they don’t pay much if anything for.
I play a game right now that is in Beta called Dual Universe. Some people paid for Kickstarter packages 5-6 years ago for around 40 bucks. The game has its areas for improvement to be sure, but some of the players are just horrible and abusive to the community. I know they paid 40 bucks for a vision some years back and maybe DU has overproduced a bit, but the abuse of the 40 or so staff that is trying to build an amazing game where you can build anything you can dream of with voxels is just unrealistic.
- gpanders 5y ago> It may just be my cynical view of the world but it just seems like more and more people are demanding higher and higher levels of service for things that they don’t pay much if anything for. I know it’s cliche on HN to blame everything on Google and Facebook, but I really do suspect that the “free to use” model pioneered by these companies (among others, of course, but these are the biggest) have got everyone used to expecting things for free.
- hnthrowaway2 5y agoThis has probably something to do with big tech companies putting out highly polished products for "free" while making money in no-so-obvious ways. People have been conditioned to expect high quality work for free.
- Vaslo 5y agoExcellent point - and people forget the side benefits of those “free” projects are raking millions into the company.