Armed Assault - Self Publish?

[SodaBob]

First off, I am in no way affiliated with cafepress.com, but I do have several stores using their service.

At any rate, they allow anyone to create an online store with items like custom t-shirts, hats, etc. But they also give the store owner the ability to upload and publish their own data CD's.

Perhaps you folks at Bohemia could "cut out the middle man" and simply publish your own game via cafepress.com?

[Killbert]

That sounds more like a last resort. BIS can reach a much bigger audience with a real publisher. And I do believe they will get it too.

[meyamoti]

As long as its not EA,then we'll have some third in team fighting and they'll make 20 shots or more to kill a person and vehicles get damaged simply a bump,imagine trying to weave through a forest in one of those (I think their willis jeeps...) and you tap a tree,either 2/3 of that vehicles armor is gone or BOOM your dead,weee.

I just hope its not EA.

[Uziyahu--IDF]

That sounds more like a last resort. BIS can reach a much bigger audience with a real publisher. And I do believe they will get it too.

Can't anybody order from CafePress? ***(I also had this idea.) ***And the CafePress business model means that only copies being sold would need to be made. ***Much less WASTE.

Has America's Army had problems with distributing its MONSTER download to gamers who wanted it? Yet you're telling me that B.I. needs to go with a publisher so that they can kill trees cranking out manuals and boxes?

[Jotte]

AA have a publisher.. US DoD With that behind you and the funds they got for it its like compering apples and oranges.

[stakex]

Thats not publishing your own game really... and Im sure they would do it all in house before they do something like this. Dont mena to shoot down your idea, but its not a logical one. Big companies dont use things like this to publish a serious game... they either go to an established publisher like Take Two, EA, or Codemasters, or they just do it in house.

[Raptor]

lol cafepress.... yes.

bad idea...

[schmerzbringer]

1.) lol @ cafepress

2.) It is End of September now.
Most parts are fixed, also the publisher, except ArmA ´ll not hit stores this year.
So it is already to late, although we didn´t see the flash.
So let´s wait for our unicorn.

[meyamoti]

Thats not publishing your own game really... and Im sure they would do it all in house before they do something like this. Dont mena to shoot down your idea, but its not a logical one. Big companies dont use things like this to publish a serious game... they either go to an established publisher like Take Two, EA, or Codemasters, or they just do it in house.

Codemasters over ea...pplleeease dun let it be ea.....

[Uziyahu--IDF]

AA have a publisher.. US DoD *** ***With that behind you and the funds they got for it its like compering apples and oranges.

But until recently they distributed America's Army through downloads and probably game magazine discs. ***So all their "publisher" did was provide the original server for download. ***Once the first few copies are downloaded they can be mirrored on other hosts. (Or you just burn several discs, which anybody can do, then send it to those who will be mirroring it.)

Yeah, you guys laugh, but that's all that you do. Laugh. Let's hear some reasons why CafePress (or any similar service, if there are others) is such a bad idea.

America's Army has 3.4 Million players who completed Basic Training.

It would seem that putting a box, a manual and a disc on a shelf is not necessary.

Can you hear the voice whispering in the field?

"If it is good, they will download it."