Cutting off your nose to spite your face http://www.geek-rant.com Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:49:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc10 That\'s an impressive amount of money for a game. Does he think he\'s still working in the BBS hay-day when you could charge $250 for a 2 user license of MBBS? I don\'t think that any BBS game ever went for the amount of money he\'s looking to claim, and net games go for even less. With the amount of sales he has turned down, he could have made his $5k already and be making more because more people want it. Yes, it would be a slower build-up, but that is better than nothing at all. Maybe what he\'s really looking for is the arcade game, where they spend $5k on a whole game, case and all. Even that includes hardware though. Hmmm... Ilene Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:33:45 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc13 Here\'s the sad part. Not only was I willing to pay what I consider to be a \"fair\" price, but I was going to take my own time and convert the product to PHP/MySQL, so the company not only would have a sale, but also have a new platform to make sales on. Between you and me, as far as business decisions go, this guy needs help. Rich Sat, 19 May 2007 00:12:27 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc27 I loved it. And holy crap, is he adhering to some ridiculous (ridonkulous, even) restrictions. And after he finishes hogtying you, he wants you to give him $4500 AND a free copy of all YOUR hard work. Not to mention if you can\'t call it what it is (Pyroto Mountain), you are hamstrung in drawing people to play it. The name is its primary selling point. No thank you. But I\'d sure like to know if you ever come up with something similar to play. katie d Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:57:33 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc29 And they used to sell the source for that. Somewhere I actually have that source code. (if it is still intact) You might be father ahead just to code up a new version..... Inflation Fri, 08 May 2009 23:00:47 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc31 I played the BBS version as a kid, and I also found the web version around 1999. The original BBS version was written by some guy in Montreal. In the 90s he sold the rights to someone else who then started Pyroto Inc. and created the web version. I\'d love to hear from someone who played the game regularly in the late 90s. I don\'t know how popular web version was in terms of raw numbers, but I believe the people who did play the game took it way too seriously, and some bizarre problems began to emerge as a result. Perhaps that\'s why it was shut down. Clearly the guy who owns the rights now doesn\'t want to give up anything. Darren Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:07:01 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc35 I hosted a Pyroto Mountain BBS in the late \'80s In New Orleans. Single line dialup but it was always busy 24 hours a day. It was fun to play with the source code and add all sorts of silly things and rules to the game. I remember talking to the author Tim Campbell way back and he said Pyroto could never be be adapted for the internet. I thought since it was already a BBS \"door\" that it wouldn\'t be too hard but what do I know. Sad to see it is tied up and lost. It is a great game. (and always remember - It\'s only a game!) TSOTL Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:12:58 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc50 If you ever go to create your own, make damn sure that it doesn\'t make any references to the original. Tim and the other guys involved in the Web version are -very- protective of what they have. They spent MILLIONS of dollars (they claim) to have built that, and received nothing back on it. TSOTL .. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:46:47 +0100 http://www.geek-rant.com/content/view/6/#josc51 Dozens of people who used the web version have tried to contact them about the supposed \"licensing\" they offer, and not one has ever received a reply. hrrrrrrrm Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:49:49 +0100