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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 3632560" data-attributes="member: 4275">My guess would be that most people see publication, at least in PDF, as a natural endpoint for a project. As someone who has done settings as commercial PDFs, and settings as free PDFs, I have to say I see very little upside to releasing a setting for free.You won't get any more exposure releasing a setting for free. You'll get many, many more downloads, but people will just download it because it's free. For most of them, it will sit on their HD unread at all, or forgotten after a cursory glance.You also won't get more meaningful feedback if you release a setting for free. Again, because it's free, people will download it that would never buy it. Since they aren't the target market, and would ordinarily have no interest in the work, their feedback is likely to be negative, and if followed, steer the product AWAY from those who actually would ordinarily play it. In short, while people expect more of a commercial product, you get a lot more in return for them. The people who download it might be fewer, but they're more likely to take it seriously and help you make the setting better, if it's for sale.It's counter-intuitive (at least it was to me). But there you go, my personal, subjective experience is that a commercially available PDF is the best way to share an idea you've invested a lot of time and energy in. Not that this precludes adding a license to the setting allowing others to use it.</blockquote>

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