This message showed when I entered the serial specifically made for pirates. Right now feeling nothing but respect for plugin devs. Next month Imma buy this plugin 100% fixed, need it or don’t need it doesn’t matter anymore lol.
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To be honest, that would make me pay for the plugin.
I feel piracy for demo purposes is fully justified if you buy it after you like it. People always say vote with your wallet but it’s more like gambling with your wallet if you don’t get to see and touch the product before you make the purchase. Giving proper demos should be more common with digital media.
On a related note, I’m very glad I pirated Starfield.
I’m thinking that I might buy it once we have creation kit access and mods that add story and flesh out the game a la Fusion City Rising and companion mods for Fallout 4
At that point I’d rather pirate the game and donate to mod developers who are putting endless hours of unpaid time into free mods.
Demos used to be a lot more common. It used to be the norm for most games. Now it’s extraordinary.
Indie devs seem to be bringing them back. Played quite a few demos recently. Hopefully the trend continues.
Devolver Digital published a demo for Heave Ho!. Worked fine, demo was fun, decided to buy the full version. It didn’t work, none of the UI elements except the back button worked on the character selection screen. Fortunately Valve is good with refunds.
Oh would you look at that, something I would pay for
True Pianos is a really solid piano VST by the way. It’s been years since I used it, but it was really good back when I was dabbling with this stuff.
I can’t find the video, but I remember someone at Ableton said they pretty much had the same view of Live piracy. If someone pirates it, they weren’t willing to spend the money on it, but perhaps they will be willing to in the future.
I still remember Zoë Keating commenting on torrents of her album on the pirate bay back in the day. Free marketing tbh.
“STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends.” - Trent Reznor, after record labels jacked up NIN album prices. Then later clarified the best quality rips were on Oink (rip 😢)
Makes me think of System of a Down’s, “Steal This Album”
Similar attitude by the HoI devs caused me to buy HoI2 and every new release after that.
HOL?
Uppercase i. Hearts of Iron
I had a colleague who would buy legal versions of software and then shelve them while using pirated cracks because he hated the EULAs.
I do this with games. A lot of games dont even really get a demo anymore. So its gambling to buy it…
I pirate the games and if i like it i buy it. Generally ill keep playing the pirated version unless it has a multiplayer i want to play as well.
If you donate, dev doesn’t have to pay taxes. If you buy, dev becomes more popular because one more sale.
Advice?
Why shouldnt the dev pay taxes?
Just because you give money to someone or something it doesn’t make it a charitable organization that doesn’t get taxed.
do both
WinRAR attitude, I respect that o7
Now i wanna buy that piece of Software, so i k ow somebody can Pirate it and does not feel Bad about it.
This is fantastic. I’ve no use for this software, but I would absolutely purchase it if I did.
I just bought a license just because
