Quote Originally Posted by stonic View Post
Who is the prototype owner in question who feels this way? Dumping a prototype has very little - if any - affect on the value of it, any more than distributing copies of it does. Unless more than 1 prototype of the game exists, the original retains its value with collectors. Even rare, released games are not affected by having been dumped, copied, and distributed. The ROM images for such Atari VCS/2600 games like Air Raid, Cubicolor, Music Machine, and Video Life have been available for years, yet original copies of those not only are still worth thousands of dollars, their values over the past 5 years have either remained the same or increased.



YOu JUST got done telling him his time would be better spent doing other things...
And no, complaining on forums isn't akin to contributing.
I did nothing of the sort. What I said is that perhaps he should take a step back to absorb the feedback and direction from the people he is complaining won't support his project financially. If he didn't want to do that, I suggested that perhaps he would be better off contributing to the community in another way and I should have further explained that by that I meant something that was not subject to such feedback or required people to support it financially. I still am not seeing any complaining here other than by the OP. People are discussing his idea and why they aren't contributing to it financially. Those aren't complaints, but rather rational statements of fact and opinion.