OUYA Moving Away from Required Free-to-Try

**Killswitch** · 03-20-2014

Originally Posted by PerfectWaveGames

Also I don't want to dismiss anybody's opinion here, but keep in mind that the number of unique posters in this thread represents a tiny, tiny fraction of the total number of OUYA owners. Like 20 or so out of (estimated) over 100k. There has been no general outrage on Twitter. Except for the same names from this thread showing up again on reddit and the OUYA blog comments, a lot of the comments are positive. People seem to be looking forward to more games.

There are probably 20 people here with like 10 OUYAs. Do their opinions count more?

Someone needs to lighten up this ragefest.

**Tricksterwolf** · 03-20-2014

Seems like some ppl actually needed this to actually want to develop for the ouya.

**Pat1986** · 03-20-2014

yeeah...super silly free to play philosophy...

**zeha** · 03-20-2014

I want to repeat my own post, as I think only one person read it. Maybe that's one of the reasons why some people find this philosophy "silly" after all.

Originally Posted by myself

I think there might be at least one positive aspect.

I might be wrong about this, because I didn't delve too much into that topic yet, but I often wondered if it's even possible to integrate the ODK into everything that you might want to use to make games. For example, if I use PGS4A (PyGame Subset For Android), or even things like GameMaker, Fusion, Unity, etc, I am not really sure if they all allow to integrate the ODK or already have it integrated, in order to call those IAP functions.
If the store handles the BUY button, it makes things a lot easier for developers, because they simply don't have to worry about that IAP code.

That said, I really like the Free To Try model in general, so I can understand the negative feedback here. But in the end, it's the developers' own problem, if they do not offer a demo for their game. Also, even while Free To Try existed, there were some really ridiculous demos, as far as I remember, i.e. demos where you play 1 level or maybe 2-3 minutes until the paywall already appears, so even with Free To Try it's possible to create unsatisfying demos, and again, that's the developers' own problem eventually.

**RiotingSpectre** · 03-20-2014

Let's keep it clean people. He may be joining our forum in the future.

Originally Posted by zeha

I want to repeat my own post, as I think only one person read it. Maybe that's one of the reasons why some people find this philosophy "silly" after all.

*Raises Hand* I read it so I'm that one person.

**Outlander999** · 03-20-2014

Originally Posted by Pat1986

This is bad. I mean, when you're not able to do a demo from your game that stands out its strength than your game isn't worth any money either...

This.

**RiotingSpectre** · 03-20-2014

Originally Posted by ???

http://ouyaforum.com/showthread.php?...6712#post36712

Thanks for the heads up.

@Community: Regardless of how you feel about what Terry said; I don't want negative comments towards him since it's technically flaming another user of the forum. To those of you who don't know, that's against the rules here. The last few posts have been edited and this counts as a verbal warning to everybody.