Should JGO have a JGO Store?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

I am thinking a long time on this idea and i think that JGO should have a JGO STORE like Origin for for developers to put their most prominent and accessible games.
What do you think about this idea?
(sorry for my bad english :frowning: )

#2

I like the idea, but the problem of letting whoever post a bad game but charge a fortune comes to mind, and also people uploading malicious content instead of games…

#3

Before the game be able to the public on JGO Store the admin has to check if it is or not a malicious content

#4

Ah, ok. Then I think it would be a nice idea.

#5

Online stores need a huge amount of traffic of the target audience.

We neither have the traffic, nor the audience.

#6

Maybe the the audience can be just the JGO users

#7

Maybe not. :clue:

#8

I don’t believe ~20 users on at a given time qualifies as “huge amount of traffic”.

Why would we need a special store anyway? Genuinely curious here.

#9

This would also require maintenance + extra security. Riven has enough things to deal with.

#10

because it would be more organized i think

Riven dont need to do all the work

#11

In case it wasn’t clear: it’s a definite ‘no’ - for obvious reasons.

#12

it was just an idea but I understand and i won’t insist… :slight_smile:

#13

I don’t think we need a store. If you want to sell your games, then go with Gamejolt or IndieDB or others.

#14

Is not necessarily for sale but more to show

#15

Like the Showcase and WIP & tools boards as well as the WIP Publication thread?
EDIT: and Featured Games!

#16

So you want to take this:

http://www.java-gaming.org/boards/games/60/view.html

And format it more of a store front way - picture, description, click to play/download?

Cheers,

Kev

#17

yes that is exactly what I wanted

#18

It would also be nice if the games in there would not only be there for a moment and then silently “disappear” to the next site. Maybe some kind of more genre than words-in-threads oriented search function…

#19

Let’s say I’d redesign the showcase board - that’s not a page that gets a significant number of hits.

JGO is really a poor place to commercialize your project - we’re here to help eachother develop it.

#20

Actually my point was not from the publishers but from the customers view.