Question: If one were to make a very large plugin (i.e., 20-30 MB) with lots of quicktime movies, maxed out ships, spobs, etc., would you be willing to pay for a copy on CD-ROM? Of course a "lite" version--without the full quicktime movies--would be freely downloadable... it's just that bandwidth does cost money. (Even when your friend is the sys admin!) One of the things I'm toying with is telling a large part of the story through cut-scenes... for the full version, you'd get fully rendered cut scenes. For the lite version, the cut scenes would be a quicktime file with ONLY a text track, or possibly a flash animation with simple graphics. (Yes, QuickTime can handle Flash.)
The cost would only be enough to cover cost of the CD-R, mailing, and the machine downtime while I do the burn (n-hours @ $15/hour -- hey, i'm a professional freelancer; $15/hour is what I charge for overhead costs). Guessing the total price to ship within the US and Canada would be less than US$10, probably closer to $6.00. (Overseas would be more, and I could probably ship air mail for an extra charge... for something as light as a CD, it wouldn't be that terribly much more.) For order handling, I might be able to use Kagi in some way... if not, just talk my friend the sysadmin to grandfathering me into Phil's credit card billing provider. ( (url="http://"http://www.philpritchett.com/")http://www.philpritchett.com/(/url) -- did the art for the latest album, as well as the associated web site for the album; Phil Central isn't my work--yet)
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