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Originally Posted by SandMan
If you read the license agreement you will see that you can't have business transactions with the software. It is for personal use. The licensing fee for the game engine would probably be astronomical if it were used for business use. Almost every software license states this. For personal use on one pc at a time. Not many will allow you to install on a server for multiple users and allow you to profit from such. This is not the same thing as having everyone own the game and splitting the cost to have their league on a website, because then the game players are not paying to play, they are paying to have a service - the website.
My idea was to have, with SI/SEGA agreement, a pay-site which requires the game players to own or to purchase the game and I would simply sell franchises to play the game with some of the proceeds returning to SI/SEGA after expenses of the site. I would like the opportunity myself to go into a web gaming site full time but only if I were to get the go ahead from a game company to use their game engine in return for a portion of the profits plus publicity for the game.
Some would wonder why people would pay when there are free leagues out there. The answer is that subconsciously people feel that there is added value when you have to pay for the item rather than getting it free, that there is a difference even if it is not a huge difference in the product or service offered.
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I see I'm not alone knocking on Markus' and Marc's door. I have in the past 6 months submitted a formalized proposal of a business model. Markus responded with some interest, but never heard back from Marc/Legal on my "Rent-A-Commish" proposal.
On a side note, peanburn, I believe you wrote to me not very long ago about joining my league. The link is in the sig. You are welcome to re-inquire, as I am in the process of converting to OOTP 2007, and expecting some people not to return (2 so far said no). My league has been in existence since July of 2000. It has its share of "decimated teams", but has very capable and mature ownership. Two of the available teams coming are regular playoff contenders, and a third team I have no ownership has what could be the NL Cy Young.
Back on point, because of doing the right thing, but never hearing back from either of the two figureheads, I never got an opportunity to get an indication of interest from the community on how many people would pay for a Commish to run a league, not run a team, and handle all the operations of the league/website.
I was going to attempt to project an assumption of fees returned to SI/Sega on this idea. If people wish to chime in if they'd pay for such service, knowing SI could potentially receive additional revenue via a third party, go right ahead.