i'll put my few cts here (maybe that's a bad expression xD)
About Donations (key word for future readers going through the pages)
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They were (and still are) meant to say
thanks for the modder's work. You understand you are getting a mod for free, and as such you could(should?) be grateful for such extra content.
(think A3DR & aphidgod NFS mod to name one, did you donate to say massive thanks for their work ?)
And to thank you back for the kind thoughts of donation, Phoenix would send extra files we were working on, you know, as a token of gratitude. (So did i back in the days for my caterhams (now i don't have any content to give you, tough luck XD))
Now the youtube videos turned words into "if you donate you have more".
But that's not really it. You may, but that's not the spirit.
Anyways, to keep things short, and how i see it...
Smallish donations, as appreciated as they can be, don't necessarily mean a lifetime of Phoenix good words & token of gratitude
You know... he spent probably 200 hours doing this, i did my little share too, so did correca and others... so you guys can have 42km to drive,
FOR FREE.
Edit: good point made; maybe we should have done a more accurate explanation about it all. With a fixed amount to make things simpler and clearer for everyone.
We didn't quite expect such interest, nor planned to go this far with the 3D I guess!
Lesson learned for future projects, who knows
Just my few cts