Tom's Forum Posts

  • We've discussed at length pricing internally (it's something we've received a lot of feedback on over the years), I completely understand and empathise with customers from other countries and you're not forgotten. I'm afraid that's all I can say right now. On launch, Construct 3 will cost $99 USD p/y.

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    Not at all what I meant, just a misunderstanding then!

  • Yes, your first year will be 50% off.

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    Currently is Chrome only, other browsers need a few feature catch-ups before it will run on them. We remain optimistic that they will be able to run Construct 3 in the future, hard to pin down when exactly which is why we're letting everyone know it's Chrome only for now.

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    Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, much appreciated.

  • Blog post here covers it, along with deal for existing Construct 2 license users:

    https://www.scirra.com/blog/183/announcing-construct-3

  • You can continue to use Construct 2, there are no plans to stop updates to it. It will continue as it has done for the last year or so. We're not forcing anyone onto Construct 3, and we think Construct 2 still has a healthy life ahead as a powerful tool!

  • I chatted to Ashley about this, and it's not an option as the previous poster mentioned it would be a maintenance nightmare. There would be loads of branches to update and maintain and ultimately would slow progress down of Construct 3.

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    We've got a lot to show today, and over the coming weeks. I understand pricing is a contentious issue for some people.

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    We feel it's more respectful to be up-front about pricing from day 1. If we announced the pricing further down the line I think we'd get a lot more criticism. We don't want to hide/bury anything that might be considered controversial.

    I'm curious specifically why do you think that's disrespectful?

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    I remember their team expanding a couple of months back, but wasn't it just like social media/PR people or something? Didn't seem to make any difference to the actual product and seemed like dead weight and a waste of resources. There are heaps of developers making a good living without subscription models, if Scirra wants to go that route it's up to them, but the argument that software developers need to use subscription models to be profitable simply isn't true.

    We've got a much bigger team now, (compared to when it was just me and Ash in our mums house all those years ago). We have an MD who takes a lot of administrative burden off me so I can work more on web development stuff and is helping grow the business, Laura doing social media and engaging with the community (we felt we needed to increase communication with the user base), Diego and Iain who are both full time developers working on Construct 3 with Ashley, and we currently have Paulo in house doing lots of graphical work, and Julien of course always being a huge help in the forum and with support emails No one is a dead weight, everyone is working very hard for Scirra and doing great work. A lot of it is behind the scenes, at least for a little longer.

  • I know business customers are the last ones to address, you're not forgotten. Details will be announced in the near future.

  • tgeorgemihai also, just a note, C3 will do everything the same way C2 does when it comes to the most important things. Nothing is changing.

    Compilers for Javascript don't exist. Javascript is not a compiled language, it's an interpreted language.

    This is not strictly true, see:

    http://softwareengineering.stackexchang ... -by-design

    The V8 "interpreter" compiles to native code internally, Rhino optionally compiles to Java bytecode internally, and various Mozilla interpreters ({Trace,Spider,Jager}Monkey) use a JIT compiler.

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    Don't think it's some sort of joke, we're reading everyone's comments. We took the decision to just be upfront as we could about pricing. Perhaps it would of been better or worse if we did it the other way round, who knows. It is what it is.

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    Angiel, between now and the beta by April we'll be showing you lots of Construct 3 things