Tom's Forum Posts

  • Reality of arcade is that the traffic is low quality - big numbers visiting arcade result in very few people exploring rest of the website.

    We have some ideas about allowing users to monetise their games better in the arcade but that's a long way off yet.

  • If we didn't give new users 1 year free, we risk all our revenue drying up because everyone new customers might choose instead to wait for Construct 3.

    Now I appreciate this is only a risk, but it's one we don't want to take. From a business point of view it's a bit of a vulnerable transition and it's important to keep sales going. Between now and end of Construct 3 beta is some months.

    Giving first year free for purchases now we consider a semi pre-order for Construct 3, and ensures that new customers won't have reason to hold off their purchases.

    We deliberated over this for a long time and felt that 50% discount off first year for existing customers was a good deal. If you don't think it's a good deal, that's fine as always we're not forcing you to take it.

  • You're kinda making a case for choosing open source software here.

    And what do you think happens if key people who maintain open source projects move on? Even open source projects have that sort of risk.

  • So the risk you are looking to mitigate here is us going out of business and totally stopping support of our products?

    If we did go completely out of business, shut the doors, and we all went and got other jobs and completely stopped selling Construct, Scirra is completely dissolved, at that point I don't see why we wouldn't give it away or open source it. I mean this event would currently appear to be highly unlikely.

    As others have pointed out, even though Construct 2 is buy once, if we go under in the future and a new bug is introduced by Windows, Chrome or any other supporting software what then? This is a risk with ALL software.

  • Thank you for the kind words, means a lot to us and we're glad you see where we're trying to go!

    We've always been a little bit ahead of the curve with some technology, that's where we like to be

    Actually I was going to ask Tom if I could just get them to use some of what I've earned from the Scirra store to handle the fee for C3.

    This would be nice I appreciate that (same as using earnings to buy items in the store), but unfortunately it's a very difficult feature to write. Part of the problem is that it significantly complicates accounting processes, and makes refunds even more complicated (they are complicated enough!)

  • Thanks, am aware can see it logging me out a lot as well. Will look into this. We've just subscribed to a CDN to help relieve some bandwidth I believe it's something to do with that.

  • This is now fixed.

  • Thanks for posting, this was meant to be a feature (stops lots of consecutive posts). Understand it's frustrating for now. Arcade is due overhaul and this will be addressed.

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  • Tried blocking their IP's and updating robots.txt but didn't work. Had to get our CDN to add manual rules to stop it.

  • Think I've finally found the root problem. Yandex search bot was going berserk and indexing ~10,000 pages an hour on the site which is way too many. This was causing an effective DDOS which made pages unresponsive. Am in the process of stopping them crawling, hopefully everything gets more stable going forwards now.

    This thread has run its course, and OP has made their point. Am locking.

    So Construct 3 saves binary blobs that can not be edited externally and are difficult for tracking changes.

    It's a mix of binary and JSON. You'll have to wait for Ash to update you on what this means exactly.

    Yep fair enough, have updated FAQ.

    Construct 3 is backwards compatible and can open Construct 2 projects, Construct 2 will not be able to open Construct 3 projects.

    [quote:36o6evm8]Because the project filetype is binary, users will not be able to comment out lines of code that prevent the project of being loaded either.

    Construct 3 projects are a mix of binary files and JSON.