Selling Templates

GingerBGames

Hello GS'ers,

I just wanted to chime in on the idea of selling templates. I feel mixed about this idea of doing it. On one hand, none of us are making good money doing this, so why not sell what you know to help people out. On the other hand though, I feel like it's going to cripple the up and comers such as myself. New devs need the help of these templates, most don't have the money to purchase these templates. I don't mind paying for them since a lot are very good, and i'm learning a lot.

"If you're good at something, never do it for free!" - Heath Ledger as The Joker TDK

DreamLab

Sounds like a good idea. What kind of template would you plan on making?
DL

JohnPapiomitis

GingerBGames said:
Hello GS'ers,

I just wanted to chime in on the idea of selling templates. I feel mixed about this idea of doing it. On one hand, none of us are making good money doing this, so why not sell what you know to help people out. On the other hand though, I feel like it's going to cripple the up and comers such as myself. New devs need the help of these templates, most don't have the money to purchase these templates. I don't mind paying for them since a lot are very good, and i'm learning a lot.

"If you're good at something, never do it for free!" - Heath Ledger as The Joker TDK

I wont go into to much a debate on this :P But its pretty simple, if you dont have the money for a template, or dont want to buy it, then learn everything yourself. For those of us that do this for a living, its pretty impossible to come up with free templates that are as good as the ones coming out lately and still put food on the table.

JohnPapiomitis

The one thing i dont like now though is everytime someone has a question, someone will try to sell there template instead of helping them out. That i dont agree with. Its one thing to make really good template and sell it, its another thing when someone makes a thread asking a question and somone hops in trying to sell something.

GingerBGames

John, yes, that's where I was going with this. Selling is fine, got no problems with it. Is it going to transfer over? I've got a lot of help from a lot of the good folks here, and I just hope it doesn't end or become a mere marketing plug for the templates.

tenrdrmer

I can see this happening with some users. But I think the main ones making the templates worth buying are always going to be willing to help out.

GingerBGames

I believe that as well. I wonder if anyone would be willing to trade templates?

tenrdrmer

Thats a you'll have to ask them directly sort of thing. I would guess they would rather sell so they prob not gonna advertise a willing ness to trade.