ernstnathorst wrote: ↑15 Mar 2019
bxbrkrz wrote: ↑15 Mar 2019
"You need to... You need to... You need to..."
Ok.
I think this beautiful thread is over. Mister Baguette won the day.
That
is a challenge for me. I would like to interact more with people. But when I stick my neck out some people get the urge to help me run the company. I understand that and don’t mind it at all. It’s just that I don’t know how to respond. I can say “great advice!” and maybe not be entirely truthful. I can mansplain why the idea won’t work and quickly find myself in a rabbit hole of endless discussions (and there will be facts and plans I can’t share). Or I can stay silent and seem arrogant or distant.
Neither feels that great.
So then I climb back into my cave.
All I can say on this subject of getting young people hooked on audio products is to give my example.. the decision to make Reason unavalable for pirating is what got me to do my FIRST real software purchase other than few discounted Steam games. Been pirating Reason since version 1 up untill 5. Nobody payed for software in my country - Romania. Pirating culture was the norm, paying for licenses seemed insane, excentric.
Finished highscool in 2003. Was earning peanuts between 2005 and and 2008.
In 2011 I start making decent money, but pay 375 EUR for software, for hobby?! This is insane - I was telling myself!
On 05.03.2013 I finally give in and place an order on Thomann for KH120A and Reason 6.5! Then soon after, surprise: R7 is announced - I get free update to 7!
Been buying lots of REs to fuel my hobby and payed for updates to R8, R9 and R10; also made a lot of complaints on the forums over the years, but lately, especialy after 10.3: I'm a happy Reason user!
But... would have I bought Reason if I did not experienced it for free for so many years in the begining and learn it? Definitly not.. I would have ended up investing in FL Studio and ACID Pro, because I also pirated those.