{"id":1023,"date":"2011-01-31T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T15:01:41","slug":"zero-g-games-are-a-bunch-of-cheats-never-do-business-with-them-they-dont-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/01\/31\/zero-g-games-are-a-bunch-of-cheats-never-do-business-with-them-they-dont-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero-G Games and casual portal royalties…"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDIT EDIT EDIT<\/strong><\/p>\n

See the comments section below, plus zero-g games have contacted me to resolve the matter and send back payments of royalties. It looks like the real villains of this piece are the casual ‘portals’ who increasingly screw the developers, and guys like zZro-G out of paying on time. I should point out that steam pay within a month, so anyone who is taking a lot longer than that is just hoarding other peoples cash.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, anyone looking for something newsworthy here should probably look towards the causal games portals rather than the spat between me and zero-G.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EDIT EDIT EDIT<\/strong><\/p>\n

oooh did I really type that?<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess I did, and it would be a disaster if a well trafficked blog became a prominent search result for the casual games publisher zero-g games wouldn’t it? But then… That’s what happens if you stop replying to your developers emails, and stop paying them, and 3 other fellow developers I’ve spoken to.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you work for bigfish games, or any other casual portal that stock these titles:<\/span><\/p>\n

Kudos<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kudos: Rock Legend<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

You will want to check your inbox for my email. Basically you are selling a game you don’t have the rights to any more, so I strongly suggest stopping that. As for anyone who wants to buy those games. DO NOT BUY THEM<\/strong>, unelss you buy them direct from me, or from impulse, gamersgate or direct2drive. Everyone else is depriving me of my share, and I made those games, so that hardly seems fair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also if you see a game called ‘oval office’ don’t buy it. It’s a cut down bastardised, casualised, americanised version of Democracy 2<\/a>, which is much much better. Buy that instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

And lastly, to any of the many publishers who keep spamming me wanting to sell GSB or my older games, and annoyed I’m not replying. Give up now. I’m never replying, I route all your emails to the bin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selling direct FTW!<\/span><\/p>\n

I love making and playing games, I hate the liars and thieves in this industry though…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EDIT EDIT EDIT See the comments section below, plus zero-g games have contacted me to resolve the matter and send back payments of royalties. It looks like the real villains of this piece are the casual ‘portals’ who increasingly screw the developers, and guys like zZro-G out of paying on time. I should point out<\/p>\n

Continue Reading… Zero-G Games and casual portal royalties…<\/span>Continue Reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}