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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vascant" data-source="post: 2943272" data-attributes="member: 13927">I guess you are not understanding what some of us see as the issue, it is not just NPC Designer but in fact no software was even given a nod.  While I will agree the mini of the horse and ride, wow.  What I looked were all the nominations compared to what the different software developers offered, what can I say.,.. 5 people have an opinion which seems to be rather strange.  ENnies for me no longer stand for Excellence in gaming but rather, 5 opinions on free products.  Then again, thats my opinion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  We all have one of them.Evolution itself is not cancelled just the time I put to other sites and keeping things updated.  Alpha testers are still getting there update today and we are still talking on a daily basis about features and functionalities.  The last 2 days have really been great, in fact some of the better coding days I have had in a good few months.  From this point forward I am not going to worry about selling or press releases, just keep myself concerned with the people who seem to appreciate the software I develop.  There is a good chance on August 1st (The 1 year mark for selling NPC Designer) I just may get out of the selling business completely.  I have a great group of people already involved in the Alpha testing and another list of NPC Designer users for the beta testing.  The person above who questioned why I do this is right, why do I do this?  I just love to code and want better software for my game.  I started with that idea but some where along the line got a little lost, I am not so lost anymore.  Am I doing this because of the ENnies or Enworld, nope.. doing it because I really want to do what I love.On the wizard's digital forum a group of us software developers and some customers had an excellent discussion about what competition brings to this industry from a software stand point.  It does a lot of good, just as does recognition for hard work.  No matter what I am going to wake up every day for the rest of my life and code or create software, it is the only thing that relaxes me and keeps me at balance at a personal level.  I need that challange and drive to succeed.  Is that bad?  Don't know and don't care, but it is me and who I am.  This is why most NPC Designer customers have nothing to worry about, I can stop selling it today and next week there will be an update for it.  Why, because I use it because even if I no longer sell it I still feel I owe it to my current customers to make it better whenever I can.  I have wanted to get out from selling since about the 4th month, I hate it but everytime I get to the point of doing it, someone manages to convince me to hold on a little longer.  As my wife said last night, I am getting old and retired.. time to take it easy.</blockquote>

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