newt wrote:Rayek wrote:Construct 3 rental: you stop paying, you cannot open your older projects for updates/changes.
How do you know that?
What if you just can't export without a subscription?
How many times a year do you export?
Would you prefer to pay each time for that?
True, I can't be sure whether that is actually the case. I am basing this on other rental software: if Scirra would allow their users to open, edit and save any project in Construct 3 without renting, they would possibly be shooting themselves in the foot: what's to keep users from using the free version to create their games, and only paying a rental fee at the very end of their development cycle? Suppose someone takes 2-3 years to finish their game, and paying the rent only when they need to export? That is, if it is possible to test the game in the free version.
Anyway, it would make the rental service too complicated for Scirra. Better to have a simple limited version that cannot open larger projects nor export to mobile (perhaps just web), and only allow these to be opened when the rent is being payed. Similar to the current Construct 2 situation: the free version is limited in export functionality, and cannot be used to open project beyond the basic limits set by that free version.
Works like that for Adobe, Autodesk, and other rental software. I don't see it working differently for Construct 3.
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