How restrictive will the NDA be once you release the Hangar module, for alpha and for beta? Will there even be an NDA?asked by Pawan
TL;DRNDA terms are a question for lawyers, but the Hangar is intended to show a terms-of-use screen stating it is very pre-alpha and buggy, so players can help crowdsource bug reports.
Well, actually, that would be sort of an answer for our lawyers. But I will say that for the Hangar app, we're intending to have a sort of terms of use screen or something that says basically: I understand that this is very, very pre-alpha. There'll be buggy code. There may be issues. I'm happy to report these, et cetera, et cetera. I understand it's work in progress. In big capitals, and you accept, and then you can play the hangar. Because the only thing I don't want people to feel like is that the hangar is completely finished and polished, because obviously it's not, it's the very first iteration. And part of the reason we give it early is so everyone else can give us the feedback and say what they like and what they don't like, or find configuration issues, and we can basically crowdsource bugs in a way that helps actually save us money, because otherwise we would have to have a lot of testers. And we are going to have testers on it, but for something that's this ambitious and this big, the only way we truly figure out what the issues are is getting it out there super early. So doing it this way, we're hoping to avoid some of the problems that you saw SimCity have on its release a few months ago.