SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero

Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by PostOnce on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:16AM (#18654075)

Yeah, understandable; that's what I meant by the "let's ignore you need DOOM" part, because everything Romero made he's giving away free. So his business model is still "it's free digitally, but costs for the box set".

What I wanted to avoid was people saying "oh but it's not free you have to buy DOOM", which is irrelevant to the idea at hand.

Now that I think of it, locomalito did this before, http://www.locomalito.com -- he makes retro freeware games, and occasionally sells box sets of those for a fee.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by ido on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:55AM (#18654230)

I've looked into it & you're basically making cents on the dollar on these limited edition boxed sets due to manufacturing cost at such a small scale + shipping. It's nice for a hobby but not a good way to make a living.

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Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero by PostOnce on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:42AM (#18654416)

Sure. It could always be used as a promo tool / halo product though; e.g. the press you can generate with the limited edition could move units of the non-limited one.

But you're right, generally it's a hobby or just a gesture for the fans, not a business decision -- and that's cool.

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