An alternative development

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From this other thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=115153

Originally Posted by Schunken

If every member here donates 20 Bucks we can hire the dev team and they make the patch for us...and than Silent Hunter 5 and we sell it our own....

Andreas

Now this is the best idea I've heard so far. How many coders do we have between us?

(EDIT: Maybe I should specify I am talking about building a subsim from scratch here...)

I wonder how well it would work, for us to pool our money together, maybe a pledge system or something, and put it up for grabs for any dev group willing to make what we want? They could recieve payment only when we voted and decided the product was finished to our satisfaction....

What do you think of this? Each one of us could pledge/invest a certain amount of money, say 50 bucks, (to an objective party if we put up cash). Features could be voted on by those who have pledged/invested.

If the current developing trend is away from PC and towards consoles, is this a viable way to get indipendant coders to keep us in submariner happiness?