emildebski85
15 years ago
2 years ago
128
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First of all, thanks for the massive support and interest for the VITREX16 SKIN. 67820 DOWNLOADS as of today....and still counting!!!

As the head of a small 2 man team behind the creations of this years (and last) most popular FM skin, 'VITREX16', and the widely used Regen hair's add-on 'Debski's World of Hairstyles' i have thought long and hard about this decision.

I really love FM, i love skinning, making the gaming experience clean, neat and just better for the eye - but on the same time, i am getting older, having more responsibilities (having my own business, working freelance on the side and starting a new tech project at the moment) which laves me unable to deticate myself fully, for at least 3-5 weeks, which it took to develop Vitrex16 and the Debski's WOH's late last year.

This has left me in kind of a dilemma. As much as i would love to create a new, even better version for the forthcoming version of FM, and on top of that add another 2000-3000 new hairstyles to the 2580 already present in our Debski's WOH's add-on, i must face that taking a month out of my calender to create a new version of both, is simply not a thing i can afford with the things going on in my life.

Therefore i will let it be up to the community - up to you guys, who have used the skin and hairpack for 2 years, knowing better than anyone, if it's something you would like to continue doing. Through small donations, eventually reaching the goal of 30.000 DK KR, would make it worthwhile for me, as i would be able to pay a close friend of mine, who also is a freelancer, to take over my tasks for some week, and ask my brother to take care of the smaller tasks in my own business - all while i build a VITREX17 from scratch. By no way, this is about being greedy, or wanting pay for something that always has been free, but it is simply the only way for me, to be able to give you a new version of the skin, and i fully understand if you are not willing to pay/help/donate - but in that case i also expect you to understand, that i simply don't have them time/possibility to develop a version for FM17, and therefore will put VITREX behind me, probalby for good.

Looking back we've had around 150.000 downloads all in all, for VITREX-MMXV and Debski's WOH (both for FM15) and Vitrex16 plus the never version of the WOH (both for FM16) which amounts to just over 0,30€ per download, if everybody donated each time they took down the skin/hairpack.

So, should we do it again this year, or should we leave it at good memories? It's up to you folks now...All donations can be done through the VITREX Kickstarter project, following this link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/619490216/fm17-graphics-vitrex17-and-debskis-world-of-hairst

Please tag and share, if you know of a friend or two, who enjoys the skin and might want to keep it going.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend everybody :-)

God bless!

Emil Debski

VP.
13 years ago
1 week ago
25,271
Not sure if i've worked this out correct but are you asking for around £3500 to make a skin?
emildebski85
15 years ago
2 years ago
128
Yes sir.

And i'm sorry if i offended you by suggesting a donation equaling 0,02% of what i believe would be your monthly salary, in order to cover (only) 30-40% of estimated losses i would take not being able to attend my own personal business interests during developing time, and support something 50-100.000 people (probably you inclusive) have enjoyed and downloaded 150.000 times+ all together, 100% for free, during the last 2 years.

Have a nice weekend :-)
Dan
12 years ago
4 months ago
16,964
Unfortunately this won't work, you'll start 'charging people/taking donations' for a skin and people will just use a different skin, they're all so similar these days that you'll lose so many downloads.

Pointless really suggesting it.
Shedender
17 years ago
1 month ago
13,751
You can't expect people to pay for you to make a skin and/or download it.

Qvordrup
16 years ago
8 hours ago
137,144
I actually think it's a great idea ..... but if i'm paying I also expect a high level of support and a fast correction of any bugs.... I also think that you in general should be open to new ideas and new ways to do things..... I say let the man do his thing and then time will tell if it is a good idea or not.... history shows that no one really can predict what people in general think and do .
Vicious One
16 years ago
1 week ago
99
EDIT: never mind, I read the messages on your Facebook page about stopping the project.
SpinSwimScream
14 years ago
16 hours ago
1,598
Literally never heard of the skin... then again I've been playing FM14 the past couple of years. But yeah there really isn't a whole load of variety usually anyway, and there's always a number of high quality options within that. As Dan said people will more than happily just use another.
robsfc
11 years ago
2 months ago
12
Premium
The FM16 regen hairstyle pack is not compatible on FM17, has anyone seen a FM17 version released yet?

I would play without it but about 50% of regens are completely bald (Jonjo Shelvey style!)

Cheers
SpinSwimScream
14 years ago
16 hours ago
1,598
The FM16 regen hairstyle pack is not compatible on FM17, has anyone seen a FM17 version released yet?

I would play without it but about 50% of regens are completely bald (Jonjo Shelvey style!)

Cheers


Read upwards
robsfc
11 years ago
2 months ago
12
Premium

Yep I have. My question still stands.
Grimnir
16 years ago
2 months ago
2,727
Yep I have. My question still stands.


Read the post by Vicious One.
philstanbridge
11 years ago
1 month ago
69
Premium
The regen hair does in the most part work properly, and it looks so much better than the default. But the beards are misaligned, so any player with beards or tashes or whatever doesn't look good. I'm not entirely sure if that requires a big fix or not, Maybe emildebski85 will find it in his heart to have a look at this problem.
Vicious One
16 years ago
1 week ago
99
Although not uploaded to Susie yet, still a big thank you to Emil for putting a version of the skin online for FM 2017! Much appreciated.

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