Enthusiasts vs Developers
When lurking in the general forum, sometimes I feel this angry vibe against enthusiasts who buy the rift but don't plan to make anything. Personally, I think that enthusiasts and developers are on ...
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"Octomelon" wrote:"lissencephalic" wrote:
Well, being a total newbie, I think enthusiasts can be important for driving the development process. I was adviced to not buy a development kit because I don't actually develop - but why not? I would like to be a part of seeing the development of the Rift history itself.
Right.
Especially for indie folks, public beta testing is invaluable. In my mind, there are no reasonable developers who have a problem with unbridled dev kit ownership.
The people who complain are probably just those cliquey types who want to feel special. They should get over themselves.
Having device availability is a good thing. What annoys me more, however, is that what should have been a dedicated support path for developers has now become general customer support because everyone is just buying developer kits.
Probably the biggest thing, though, is having a dedicated developer community encourages technical discussion and participation by industry practitioners. There is a lot of reinventing the wheel going on here (especially in the Unity forums) simply because a lot of the participants do not come from a computer-graphics heavy development background. It would be good to boost that, but you're never going to see it in a customer support forum.