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 Post subject: Game Maker Studio for $800?
PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 7:00 am 
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YoYoGames wrote:
Take advantage of the current and very low $499.99 price of GameMaker: Studio Master Collection before version 1.2 launches and the price increases to $799. This offer is valid through August 18, 2013.

Is this real? Are they making the way overpriced GMS Master even more expensive? You might almost think YoYo just wants GM to die. Also, it's in some way hilarious that they call $499.99 a 'very low price'.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:47 am 
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I love the way YYG calls $500 a "very low price." If they're going to be almost doubling the price of a development tool that was already extremely expensive, they'd better be making it twice as good as it was before - and that means fixing the glitches that occur every five minutes you attempt to use Studio.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:51 am 
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VinnyVideo wrote:
I love the way YYG calls $500 a "very low price." If they're going to be almost doubling the price of a development tool that was already extremely expensive, they'd better be making it twice as good as it was before - and that means fixing the glitches that occur every five minutes you attempt to use Studio.

From what I've read, the only thing they are adding is the YoYo compiler, which makes your games run faster. But hell, that's in no way worth 800 bucks.

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 Post subject: Re: Game Maker Studio for $800?
PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 10:07 am 
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This really shouldn't be a problem to any of us here at MFGG. Yoyogames doesn't want GM to die, they already have a lower priced Game Maker Studio for all of our fangaming/hobby needs. I would never dream of getting this version of Game Maker unless I was really serious about using the program to make indie games for IOS and Android.

 
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:17 am 
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Overall Game Maker: Studio is as expensive as Adobe CS bundle and possibly the most expensive single piece of software at this time. Heck, if YoYo Games forces us to use GM: Studio (even the cheap one is a rip off), I'm switching to construct 2 which is only in the 80 bucks including Android, iOS support.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:39 am 
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Since GameMaker relies on a scripting language for its remotely advanced functions anyway wouldn't you guys by this point be better off learning a high-level language like Ruby?

You'd have a little more groundwork to do defining **** like the basic engine, how to tell levels apart, and have to compile and all that, but once you get into it you'll have way more power and comfort.

And it's you know. Nowhere near $800.00 to get started.

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Considering what you get for it, 499$ is a pretty low price. If you don't want to pay that much, just buy the Standard Edition which is the equivalent of the Pro Edition.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:07 pm 
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Fibriel wrote:
Since GameMaker relies on a scripting language for its remotely advanced functions anyway wouldn't you guys by this point be better off learning a high-level language like Ruby?

You'd have a little more groundwork to do defining **** like the basic engine, how to tell levels apart, and have to compile and all that, but once you get into it you'll have way more power and comfort.

And it's you know. Nowhere near $800.00 to get started.



I totally agree. Good points!
And I also think $800 is overpriced even with all these export features.

 
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:19 pm 
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Hell no. I'm sticking with my 8.0.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:28 pm 
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UltLuigi wrote:
Hell no. I'm sticking with my 8.0.

And being forced to pay an outrageous price for the next version and the one after that and the one after that when you could spend slightly more effort learning a proper language for absolutely free so you can program your own development base that's perfect for your needs and potentially build a stable career with your legitimate programming experience?

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:40 pm 
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Fibriel wrote:
UltLuigi wrote:
Hell no. I'm sticking with my 8.0.

And being forced to pay an outrageous price for the next version and the one after that and the one after that when you could spend slightly more effort learning a proper language for absolutely free so you can program your own development base that's perfect for your needs and potentially build a stable career with your legitimate programming experience?

If I wanted to upgrade, I can go to Studio Standard for $9.99 this summer. I'm fine with how my current version is, anyway.

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UltLuigi wrote:
If I wanted to upgrade, I can go to Studio Standard for $9.99 this summer. I'm fine with how my current version is, anyway.

It's been quite obvious GameMaker has become more and more corporate and commercial as it's gone on, and here they are dropping support and forcing everybody to their new shiny expensive version.

You won't be able to keep that old version forever. You'll have to switch when operating systems no longer run your old version within five or six years. But if you learned a programming language you could keep it for a lifetime.

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Fibriel wrote:
You won't be able to keep that old version forever.

I know. I'll just keep it for as long as I've got. Then I'll switch to a more conventional means of developing games.

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DJane Coco wrote:
Considering what you get for it, 499$ is a pretty low price. If you don't want to pay that much, just buy the Standard Edition which is the equivalent of the Pro Edition.

Really? For 499$, you can buy way more, like a good laptop or pc. I'd rather buy something like that, than just a game making software when the old 25$ version is just working fine.

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WreckingGoomba wrote:
Really? For 499$, you can buy way more, like a good laptop or pc. I'd rather buy something like that, than just a game making software when the old 25$ version is just working fine.

It's obviously not meant for you, then.

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The problem is, the more expensive versions of GM are meant for actual indie developers, not random fangame creators. There's less expensive versions, you know.

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"Actual indie developers" use a cross-platform solution like Java.

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Fibriel wrote:
"Actual indie developers" use a cross-platform solution like Java.

Not necessarily. There's a number of indie games out there made in Game Maker. You're saying those guys aren't "actual indie developers"?

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remember when mfggers picked gm over mmf because it was less expensive

 
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UltLuigi wrote:
Not necessarily. There's a number of indie games out there made in Game Maker. You're saying those guys aren't "actual indie developers"?

Nope.

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remember when mfggers picked gm over mmf because it was less expensive

I remember when they picked it over TGF.

Remember TGF?


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