frankly these conversations are over the top imo. providing support for people on software products is expensive. Say a product like this which costs 70 bucks maybe has a little profit after the expense of development / marketing is calculated, and now you the company also has to pay someone a reasonable living wage to answer emails and walk people through installations / support which does go up with new users who have just transferred a license because they are setting it up for the first time.
in any case these things go both ways.
yes, I find these convoluted explanations about why charging more money for transfers is somehow for the customer benefit to be strange justification.
BUT
these guys have to make a living in order to keep making software for us, and as they explain it has to come from someplace. As I see it people either pay upfront an expensive price, pay a subscription of some sort, or pay a low price but pay for updates. there isn't escaping it to support high quality dev shops someone has to pay someplace.
at least for me, i'll demo this and if i love it, i'll buy it, and hopefully never think about transferring my license to anyone at any point. to be honest the ONLY plugins I have ever actually considered selling my licenses for are the Acustica Audio plugins I have purchased. After years of bug fix promises (never delivered), continued glitchy behavior, and new plugin after new plugin being released without ever addressing issues with old plugins, i've totally soured on their products.
in any case these things go both ways.
yes, I find these convoluted explanations about why charging more money for transfers is somehow for the customer benefit to be strange justification.
BUT
these guys have to make a living in order to keep making software for us, and as they explain it has to come from someplace. As I see it people either pay upfront an expensive price, pay a subscription of some sort, or pay a low price but pay for updates. there isn't escaping it to support high quality dev shops someone has to pay someplace.
at least for me, i'll demo this and if i love it, i'll buy it, and hopefully never think about transferring my license to anyone at any point. to be honest the ONLY plugins I have ever actually considered selling my licenses for are the Acustica Audio plugins I have purchased. After years of bug fix promises (never delivered), continued glitchy behavior, and new plugin after new plugin being released without ever addressing issues with old plugins, i've totally soured on their products.
Statistics: Posted by motomotomoto — Tue Jun 18, 2024 4:46 am