ALL PRAISE YOUR SUPREME LORD CORBO
I'm not much of a gamer but I can talk about music.
As a musician myself, I've recorded several material, the fact is, that music is about art and not money. You could easily say that being a musician is just a hobby for me but the fact is that it is not. Being an artist is a full time job for me. I study architecture, I have taken several art & drawing lessons plus I have been a musician for over 15 years now. I am currently taking a photography course. See what I mean with being an artist?
My point is, that even if I did sell my work, that I won't, and just imagine that I actually happen to find a torrent for my full discography I'll be damn proud of myself that people are actually trying to hear my music in anyway they can. I must have done something right if people are "pirating" me.
But I'm pretty sure you're that close minded that you will ask for real examples. Sure, why not?
Radiohead released a disk to be fully downloaded by the internet. On their website, before downloading the disk, you'd be asked How much would you actually pay for the material, you could pick a number or you could just say $0 and get the download anyway.
Their sales actually increased after that. You can google it yourself if you didn't know about this.
Coldplay also released singles to be freely downloaded.
Metallica also released some material to be downloaded for free.
Jamiroquai and Oasis are also considering the stunt made by Radiohead.
Paying $1000 for a program is absolutely ridiculous, IMO, but software that is worth more than $500 is not to be expected to be bought by someone just to make signatures on a forum site, of course. The high prices are mainly aimed at people with their own companies, freelancers and such. "Professionals" for that matter.
Which is why many and many softwares and companies already realised that and have started offering things like "student discount", which is brilliant.
I myself have tons of software that are (all together) around $25,000. I've got only two of them that are not "legal". The rest have been provided to me by nice people with multiple licenses and such.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 21 2009, 3:08 pm by Doodan. Reason: removed flame
fuck you all