EU VAT Legislation
Many of you may have
recently read about the upcoming changes to VAT on Electronic
Services which takes effect on 1st January 2015. As a
small vendor providing electronic content, we have still made no
decision on how we will proceed after this date, but a decision must
be taken soon.
As you will be aware,
we offer scenario packs at a very low price in order to fund site
development. Once all hosting, shop fees and Paypal deductions are
taken into account, the amount made per pack isn't a large one in the
current format, and any additional overheads would leave us with two
options, to increase prices in order to cover this shortfall, or to
remove the packs from sale completely. Either option has a strong
probability of restricting future growth at DPSimulation.
Once a decision has
been made, I'll provide an update.
DPSimulation –
Repaint Use
Due to the rapid
expansion of the DPSimulation website, particularly over the past 12
months, this has seen a massive increase in requests for the use of
repaints in payware packs, sometimes numbering 2-3 per week and in
particular for repaints created by Richard Fletcher. After discussion
with Richard, it has been decided that these requests be discouraged,
and no further dialogue will be entered into other than with those
that permission was already explicitly given. Likewise, this applies
to all repaints created by DPSimulation, requests for repaints by
other authors will be passed on to them on a case by case basis.
As Train Simulator
becomes more popular and the amount of content increases, many people
are now sensing the opportunity to start up a new outfit in order to
sell scenarios, often spending time creating these scenarios and
using content without permission, only seeking this permission when
the pack is ready to be sold. My advice to anyone wishing to sell
content is to seek any permission from the outset and certainly
before your content is created. Alternatively, if you are wishing to
create a successful line of scenario products, either become
involved in the repaint process yourself, or bring somebody on board
that is willing to do so, don't just assume that freely available
content has an allowance of use when you are trying to make money
from it.
Early Access
I am no longer
accepting submissions for Early Access so if you wish to make a
donation in order to help DPSimulation, please don't do this on the
condition that you are expecting this access. Despite this
non-acceptance, those who currently have access will continue to do
so and will see new and updated projects made available in the New
Year.
