Are YYG doing their jobs perfectly? Of course not. To the contrary, they are indeed doing many things in a “very poor” way.. but I just feel like this generalization that the ENTIRE implementation of YYG is poor quite wrong.

The website itself is pretty good. Can it be improved? Yes it can. Tuntis pointed out a lot of good improvements to the site. I acknowledge that’d make it better, but its good already.

What YYG is doing “very poorly” is communication with the existing community: The GAME MAKER Community (as opposed to the YYG community). YYG cannot communicate effectively with the GMC and they therefore cannot satisfy the GMC effectively. This is a problem. A big problem. But I hate it when generalizations are made that makes people believe that YYG is poorly implemented; it isn’t, only PART of it is.

I mean, for a new user registering on the YYG site.. most of the concerns you’re speaking of don’t even matter. Chances are, even if YYG loses the GMC, it might meet success for another segment of the Market. Surely that’d increase the risks of failure, just understand that “satisfying the GMC” isn’t the only thing out there, and it actually DOESNT MATTER to 99.9% of the target ‘market’, it only matters to the existing consumers.

If that makes any sense.

Really, the idea behind YoYo games isn’t bad. They just still have a lot of problems.

-Elmernite

If YoYo doesn’t get their act right, they’ll loose their funding, and *poof* GameMaker disappears because of YoYo.

Robin