how much would you pay if BM wasn't free?

[fury]

60€

[bigfan421]

if BM wasn’t free?
I would pirate it. I normally don’t pirate things, but for the last 3 years, the dev team has been saying it will be free. going back on your word and making a free modification cost money is a serious dickmove.
/joking
but seriously, I would pay $20 for the game

[Dr_Strangelove]

Well all I have is this blank check made out to cash.

Will that be ok?

[Maxey]

All I have is this trillion dollars bill.

Fuck.

[Stale_Stapler]

i can beat up kids for some lunch money, will that be okay?

[112358]

9.99 dollars

[xalener]

@Raminator

You’ve missed the point of the thread; it’s not “suddenly, the Black Mesa team have changed their minds and are charging money for their mod, how much would you pay”, it’s “alternatively, if the Black Mesa team had always intended on charging money for their mod, how much would you pay”. There’s not much point getting your righteous dander up about a purely hypothetical situation like this, you’re just going to make yourself a target.

On a more topic-related note, I’ve worked on this mod for nearly six years. Based on my annual salary, that means that you guys owe me half a million dollars. I’m withholding the mod’s release until my bank account shows that amount.

Enjoy your Ferrari.

[omNOMinator]

@xalener

Enjoy your Ferrari.

EVERY time I see any of your posts I cannot help but listen to that song in your signature.

But yeah, I would pay £35-45 MAXIMUM. It’s really really awesome, but I’m not that fussed about playing it, there are other games out probably just as good.

[Twinsen]

@Twinsen

First at all, sorry a lot to all the people for my terrible english. Unfortunately I am from this shit of country called Spain… And here the public education is pathetic. I think only, that some developers started this Mod to work, some day, in a big company like (maybe) Adam Foster. In this case, their work to them, is like a big investment. Therefore, they don´t need money from me.

After this, on the other hand, I am not agree with, from an hypothetical point of view, pay for a Mod where, for example, Kleiner appear with hair and close to Gordon Freeman at some place of the mod. I think that this aspect is impossible for many reasons that I won´t explain here.

I understand that “How much could you pay if BM wasn´t free” is just a supposition and I understan that, in any case, the developers can´t charge us for this mod. But I said: “before all the time that I have been waiting for this, without anykind of good news…” trying to explain that to me, in any case, this developers doesen´t care if we were waiting 7 years or 1000 years ,apparently, because almost they don´t tell us anything about their progress. So, a people that doesn´t care my patience and wishes to see their grate job (because I am sure that ,with or without errors, BM will be amaizing) make me say that I wouldn´t pay them absolutly nothing. Finally, about: “AND are you saying, you would pay Valve if they made it but not the original dev team because they are not valve?” I tryed say that this mod is unofficial and this reason plus the other reasons make me say again, that I wouldn´t pay them absolutly nothing. But YES if were Official, I mean, if was made by Valve, I woud pay anything because I think that Valve usually set good prices and because they were the original developers.

I am sure that all this, still being a “uninformed bullshit” without sense, but it´s all that I can do by the moment. Truly, sorry a lot for my english.

I have read some minutes ago, one Post wrote by Artlav, where I found a lot of answers. And thanks to Artlav I am seeing that I was wrong a lot. Fortunately, now, I can undertand the Developers team´s life situation and therefore, I see that they are really busy. So, truly , Sorry a lot for my words, I am regretful

Finally I am still sorry for my english, and right now I would pay 34,19 € if BM wasn´t free. :3

[Kaweebo]

If it was like a hundred dollars hell no. If it was the normal pricing for new games I’d most likely get it.

[PsychoDad]

@Assassin

I think they planned it as free (they had no rights to sell it anyway)

Well duh. That’s not the point, nor the question.

As far as the question – depending on the look of trailers and reviews, probably up to the $30 - $40 range. If I had to buy blind, maybe the $15 - $20 range. Much over forty bucks – BitTorrent.

[xalener]

40 bucks at the most.

20 bucks reduction for being a remake, but still very close to a full price title because of all the time and work put into it.

[_rot_fodder]

If I just saw it on steam one day with no ties to the community/Devs, I’d probably pay $20 to see what it was about, cause I love half life.

Honesty though, after being here for like, four or five years, I’d pay $60 no problem, even if it were a sudden release date surprise.

[xalener]

@Raminator

You’ve missed the point of the thread; it’s not “suddenly, the Black Mesa team have changed their minds and are charging money for their mod, how much would you pay”, it’s “alternatively, if the Black Mesa team had always intended on charging money for their mod, how much would you pay”. There’s not much point getting your righteous dander up about a purely hypothetical situation like this, you’re just going to make yourself a target.

On a more topic-related note, I’ve worked on this mod for nearly six years. Based on my annual salary, that means that you guys owe me half a million dollars. I’m withholding the mod’s release until my bank account shows that amount.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwQtVsRXsc&feature=player_detailpage#t=51s

[P_PORTAL_RTAL]

id pay 55 euro, i dont think its like am od its a complete game that was build well like 90% of it i gues

[lambda]

OVER 9000$!!!
Nah, probably around 50-60?

[Geronimous]

If it were a retail game in production? not much. It is a remake of an old game, so retail value it does not really have. The engine and graphics are a bit outdated by now, so that would not be a selling point either. It would be in the budget bin from the start and would not pay anything over 7-9 euro.

It is a MOD, and that makes it have this huge fanbase. I was there when it all began, and even I am starting to think the dev time is getting ridiculous. I can still picture the ‘2009’ trailer, and we’re halfway through 2011 already.

[ac3d]

Ram how much would you pay for the mod if someone else was working on it?

[MDIGN]

why would i pre-order a game that wont be released?

[xalener]

@Geronimous

If it were a retail game in production? not much. It is a remake of an old game, so retail value it does not really have. The engine and graphics are a bit outdated by now, so that would not be a selling point either. It would be in the budget bin from the start and would not pay anything over 7-9 euro.

It is a MOD, and that makes it have this huge fanbase. I was there when it all began, and even I am starting to think the dev time is getting ridiculous. I can still picture the ‘2009’ trailer, and we’re halfway through 2011 already.

I don’t think you grasp the scale of what this mod actually is.

Remake =/= remastering.

It’s not the same game.

It’s Half life like John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing was Christian Nyby’s 1951 The Thing From Another World.