Wow, thanks guys!

It's really nice to see Construct Classic still being supported by the community and getting the deserved love. :)

Once the license expires there'll be a notification which you can dismiss.

no phoning home

Huh? How else should Construct find out that you have a valid license? If you think that the license should be offline, then the pirates will sooner or later find out how to crack this.

Hmm, this sounds better.

But I still wonder how would you then make a living out of this? When people bought the 10-year license, then you won't get a lot of people buying this and this means you will slowly go out of money.

Neo1000 You seem to think that it is bad to be successful and make money off of a project. Although, I personally doubt 40K folks are going to jump right on this myself with it in Alpha...if they did I would be happy for Ashley.

I never mind if someone would make a program to earn. It's just that something that has been planned to be open source gets changed to closed source, which is extremly annoying to me. Especially it should a subscription plan.

Even if the subscription plan gets renamed to "2 years free updates" that's still a subscribtion plan even if it has a super fancy name.

Because I graduate soon, and I need to get a job, and I can't think of a better job than working on this, but to do that I need a way to pay rent, food, bills etc.

So you think that for about 40'000 People x 40 Pounds = 1'600'000 Pounds you would make a living?

Having just one paid software won't get very far, with subscription or no subscription.

I'm still just annoyed that the first plan was to have Construct open source and later it gets closed source. It's if Mozilla would decide that you pay a subscription plan for the latest version Firefox 4. I wouldn't mind if the next big non-construct project would be a paid software. It just will forever give a bad taste.

As said, there are a lot of people that like this plan and I alone can't do anything about this and I gave my hopes up for Construct 2. I'll just stay with Construct 0.X

Ashley

Also another question pops up, you say that you and your team did this because you like programming, well why don't you want to keep it free.? You're not forcing yourself to program Construct because you don't like to program. You wouldn't mind programming 5 million lines for that, you make Construct because it's your passion to program a software!

If I would make a software like this and first let this be free, it will stay free in the future. I don't want to scare away people with a subscription plan.

I wouldn't even mind having to wait every month for an update. But well I can't do anything alone. Almost everyone says that the subscription plan is the best so I'm pretty sure it will stay like that.

It's a good idea to not include any splash screens or something. But wouldn't then people tend to juse use the free version. The nag screen can be clicked away and you won't earn anything anyway.

Also, why are you thinking of licensing this now? Wouldn't it be more in the priority list to actually finish Construct 2?

liamdawe, deebee

The price is sort of ok. But! You own it only 2 years long. It's like if I would give you a software and after one year I take it away from you. I never liked subscription plans and I still don't like it.

Also deebee, if I want I could actually learn a programming language and program for free. And if I learn like C# or Lua, I won't be bound with just the exporters Construct has. Yes, it's cheap.

This is the biggest difference

While with 150 Euro I can only have Construct fully for 5 years. I can spend 150 Euro for MMF2 and I can use it also after 20 years. Sure it's then old but I still can use it, because I own the software.

We're not just talking about the price.

The reason is, that after 2 years, the subscription runs out and the software isn't yours anymore.

Also, we're not all companies that yearn 20'000 Pounds per year. We're talking mostly about normal earning people.

It also seems a bit odd going from a free software to one where you pay more than Game Maker but then 2 years later don't actually own it.

That's what I also thought. It just makes it sort of greedy.

It's like you first make it as a free alternative for MMF2 and after 10'000 People use this, you just turn this into a subscribe program to cash in. This makes me feel really betrayed, even if the reason would be that you make Construct as a full-time job.

It would be better if you do this like Clickteam does. You pay for the software and when another major update comes out, users owning the old version get a discount. This makes the user decide, if he really wants to jump to a newer version or if he's happy with the software he just has. That's how lots of major software developers do.

But as said, I feel betrayed by having something free and later have to pay to still use it.

Sorry, but I think the plan before with "pay-what-you-want" was better. This just makes it a lot more like Multimedia Fusion 2, GameSalad, etc. This makes Construct a lot more unattractive for me. It's just because I started using Construct because it was FREE and it didn't have any stupid nag screens that annoy me.

For example, why should I pay 40 Pounds every two years if I could just buy MMF2 for 90 Euro and have it forever? Or I could start using Game Maker, just 20 Euro and I can do anything (downside being you have to programm sometimes for yourself).