well alex just to let you know i am gona buy quest i got check a week ago and i planing to buy it this week or next.

You make and release a game trying to get to the widest selection of people available but there're at most 10 people (just to show the gravity...... there *could* be more willing to pay) that can play it. There are those of us too busy to play, or are more on the game making side that don't play it, let's say 30%..... so that's 6/7 people. (just from the fake figure above).

Now I believe some things should be payed for, like QDK, Qcompile, anything that edit's / makes. But Quest, the actual game PLAYER doesn't make OR edit a game..... it simply plays it.

I think Quest should follow many other programs and make the player free (ala Quicktime, Realplayer, Acrobat reader, and there are many more out there) but charge for the makers.

As for what should be payed for - your philosophy is exactly the same as mine. To just play games in Quest, you don't have to pay anything - Quest doesn't expire, and there are no nag screens, just a link on the About window where you can order Quest Pro, which is exactly the same kind of thing that you get if you look at Acrobat Reader.

Now, the Quest download also includes QDK, which has always had a nag screen on it, because it's the editor. As of QDK 3.1 the nag screen has changed somewhat. It used to be that there was always a five second delay before you could start the program. I thought this was probably a little bit too irritiating for people just starting trying out QDK, so I got rid of it, but I've replaced it with wording to the effect that, after 30 days of using QDK, you really ought to pay for it. Now, if you use QDK for more than thirty days, that time delay on the nag screen comes back, and as you use it for longer, the time delay becomes longer, up to a maximum of 99 seconds. But, psst... QDK never actually expires.

So, Quest is free if you just want to play games, and, if you want to make games, you can have the stress-free version of QDK for a nice low price. If you pay for it, that means I'll keep on developing it, fixing those bugs, adding the new features you request etc., plus it means I can still pay the webhosts which means you can still chat in this forum and you can still access the Axe Software website which is nice and fast and has no advertising.

They shouldn't write "Quest" when it's "QDK" so sorry.

Anyone who complains about you charging for any editor *is* crazy....

Still if you're going to use it send the money. It's only $20. Thats a very small amount considering that Warcraft III is $60