Something of this length shouldn’t be more than £8, if it isn’t I’ll buy it.
Nice, been looking forward to this for a while and I’ll gladly pay for his hard work!
Black Mesa will have a full commercial release on November 19 2011 like his predecessor Half Life 
Meh, I don’t think I’d actually pay for Dear Esther. I was mainly looking forward to it for the graphical improvements, but fuck that, I’m not paying for better graphics no matter how mouth watery they may be.
Black Mesa on the other hand might actually warrant for me to pay for it should the need ever arise…
Don’t get me wrong, I would happily pay for Black Mesa if they decided to do that, but at the same time, after saying for so long that they will be releasing it free, for them to turn around and do that would be a bit of a dick move. Honestly, I’m still surprised they don’t have some kind of Paypal donation system on the front page.
Black Mesa will be a free mod. Charging would violate the rules under which the mod is able to be made.
That doesn’t mean they couldn’t turn around and get authorization from Valve like these people have. Odds are they won’t, but the option does exist for them.
Nope. They’re recreating Valve’s IP. Unless Valve explicitly hired them and turned the project official, they are legally barred from making any money off of the mod.
And Valve would NEVER hire a team with a game developed as far as
99 %, offering every dev 5000 $ for every year they were in the team in exchange.
If Hl1 sold 8 million copies in five years, that is about 240 million dollars in five years. Considering how the computer game industry developed and how many HL fans there are, but also considering piracy, it’s safe to say they can make AT LEAST 10 % of that revenue.
But hey who needs 24 million dollars, resp. 30 000 Dollars as dev.
What I’m trying to say: I would be VERY surprised to hear that Valve never offer them a deal.
Where does the money from sales go?
To Gaddafi of course.
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obviously
It seems like a very beautiful mod with the awesome new sound and visuals, but I don’t think it’s worth buying when all you do is walk around and look at stuff.
I can do that in my own backyard with my iPod in.
I first heard of Dear Esther when I heard of the remake, so I went and played the original and was very disappointed with what I saw. The story made little sense to me since it was jumbled up, though as I went on, it did start making a little more sense, but by then it had ended. I kept thinking something was going to jump at me, but it didn’t (likely from my playing of Amnesia). Honestly, this is a pointless game that doesn’t deserve to be a game, anyone who would be willing to pay for a version that just has fancier graphics and an even more jumbled up story than the original doesn’t play games seriously, which is likely why I don’t care for this game at all.
Slowpokes, Bro
@slowpokes Bro you have no way of knowing that the story will be more jumbled up. My guess is the story will be much clearer. If he’s making everything better it’d stand to reason that he’ll make the story easier to understand. I might buy it if it’s pretty cheap. Just because it is so visually stunning. It’d be really cool if someone made a L4D2 campaign out of it, but now that it is going commercial I doubt that’ll be possible.
The rest of your post is irrelevant; this single statement narrows down why you didn’t like it. Not saying it’s your fault that you didn’t understand it… but it’s your fault.