Moyo Go Studio DevBlog

I’m continuing Moyo Go’s development.

Since I haven’t been working on it for almost a year I had emotionally distantiated myself from the project, and having found other employments, I thought it was better to let the project bleed to death, seen the comprehensive censorship on Sensei’s Library (from the same country as Hitler) and the AGA/BGA crusader duo (from the countries that brought us WW III). Let’s not mention GoBase, as GoBase is a direct competitor and has trivialized itself anyway. But a very positive thing is that GoDiscussions does not censor the product, even though some moderators like to block threads where the boycots are discussed. *

When I announced to stop selling Moyo Go, I was astonished to receive a dozen of emails in my support - amazingly, many were still visiting this site after almost a year of inactivity.

Even better, I received a handful of purchase requests (I denied them all because I had used my development PC for my new PC-repair business as a data-salvage station, and my main computer is a laptop now because it doesn’t make as much noise as that enormous quad Opteron server I used for data-crunching).

So I will continue - with a new business model:

- Instant download of the product after purchase
- Purchase price of the core product (with just pro games) about half of what it was before (well, in Euro’s because the USD suffered a terrible inflation over the past year)
- No weekly pro games by email any more
- No free updates any more
- Yearly releases of major new versions
- Existing customers pay the same for new versions

I regret I won’t be able to provide my existing customers with weekly emails with new pro games and free software updates any more. With the sales figures I have now (due to the boycots), I had the choice of folding or doing it this way.

At least I have reverted my decision to abandon the product, meaning that one will be able to get future updates for a modest price, instead of owning a “dead” product. I think it is a good compromise, especially now I know that at least the Western Go community is a bunch of cowardly sheeple with an unhealty respect for the wrong authorities. I have been sorely disappointed by them - my bad for imagining that they would somehow be more ethical, intelligent or brave than the average human being.

* The boycotters say they censor Moyo Go Studio because it contains a few thousand games that others offered first and that this is an unforgivable breech of ethics, I say they organized boycots because Moyo Go forms a threat to their financial interests of monopolizing the world’s Go games and profiting indefinately from them. Some (Arno Hollosi) admit that they boycot me because they just don’t like me - making it petty power-politics of personal preference - even more pathetic.