nickb523 wrote: ↑21 Dec 2021
If you follow Agevik's comments on twitter and such you'll see that he is light-hearted jokey guy that doesn't appear to take himself too seriously. I really don't think that comment was intended as an underhanded dig at perpetual users. To me it reads like a bit of friendly banter poking fun at the irony of perpetual users endlessly slagging off the "stupid R+ renters" when those people are actually the ones helping the company grow in today's modern service-based landscape. Some of you perpetual guys can often seem a bit like elite PC gamers that rip the piss out of the "console peasants" - As far as I can tell it's that type of mentality Niklas is making light of.
Nick, he's the CEO of a $10m business. One might expect the boss of a
music company at that, to not be so tone bleedin' deaf! You'd think that'd be in the job description! Twenty years ago we'd have called what he's done "Doing a Ratner"! No-one's got hurt, but it's at best lame, and at worst it's damn incompetent.
Because this was a very carefully worded statement he has written or at least offically sanctioned with his photograph, directly aimed to Reason users and investors, not just the fawning fans and followers of social media. Looking at his phrase again in context, it really doesn't come across as a joke, it's negging. And note follows on directly from a serious discussion about technical internal improvements, with no exclamation mark or a even passive-aggressive winky to suggest a change of tone, which might have given one the benefit of the doubt. It comes across very straight.
So either he meant it, or someone sure overdid the egg nog at the Xmas party! And multiple people will have read this statement and approved it before posting..Which additionally means they all think it's funny to joke at the expense of perpetual license holders. People who still pay them actual money. It's not Monopoly paper. Jokes are fine, but read the fucking room first.
And frankly, I know what you mean about elite users, and I'm sure every one of us has been guilty of either that or some other form of moderatrix gatekeeping. However it's interesting he's effectively doing the Trump playbook here, divide and conquer, and I think you've fallen into his trap, because now the CEO has explicitly made the subject entirely partisan by using the term "a perpetual" as a collective noun for a segment of user, that's now being repeated in this thread, and so is now a thing (if it wasn't especially so before).
We're a
either subscriber or a
perpetual, not simply a Reason user. And additionally he's using the latter in a perjorative way: you perpetuals don't get all the toys! You perpetuals don't fund Reason development! Well, no. Fuck right off.
It's pretty shoddy with the typical gaslighting that he writes about how all the content they produce means people can't afford to buy them all outright, true enough, but as a means to justify subscriptions providing a method for those payers to have access to it all instantly, regardless of whether they need much of it at all. This however conveniently glosses over the fact the reason for the constant feeding of content, much of which is crud, or cheap, or half-arsed, is it's just bait to justify the subscriptions to keep people hooked and addicted. It's crack. It's heroin. It's FOMO.
Really, the entire method Agevik is describing here dissing non-R+ users is the "here's what you could have won" syndrome. Oooh, a
speedboat! Yeah, that'd have come in handy on the council estates! Can't beat a bit o' bully!
I thank our two R+ subscriber friends
if you made it possible for us to have a business model which allows them to release improvements!
Merry xmas!
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