save your apartment designs?

[Zyegs]

(02-09-2018, 12:17 AM)Avril 2018 Wrote:

(02-08-2018, 02:36 PM)Zyegs Wrote: In the beginning I made exclusive designs, but after seeing that those designs didn't end up being so exclusive, I decided to start selling them to more than one person.

The problem is that the people you sell it to can sell it to other people and so on. In the end the designer is the one who makes less money of all.

Basically I think the problem is that most players don't appreciate the effort and the work behind the designs (at least in my case, I can't speak for others). If they were honest enough not to resell the designs or give them without permission this wouldn't happen.

Not looking for an argument just a discussion.

If I commissioned a design should that not belong to me?   I can use, give or sell as I want.   If I paid you for an exclusive design and you sold it to another aren’t you in the wrong?

The “cost” in the design is the time it took you:  selling it to 1, 2 or 3 people does not result in more production costs.   So if you sold 20 for $10k each that would be better than 1 for $100k.   I might buy more than one design at $10k but maybe none at $100k.

The problem is that they should follow the same rules that many other digital products but they don't do it (although it's normal that they can't do it, after all this is a game). For example when you buy a license for a program or a videogame in digital version, apart from deciding to use it, you can give it or resell it but just one time, not infinitely.

I agree that selling it to several people doesn't increase costs, but it's normal for the "digital world". As happens with programs, or video games.

In short, designers don't want to spend our time so that other people without doing anything can get profit from a job that is not theirs.