juli,

If you donate, dev doesn’t have to pay taxes. If you buy, dev becomes more popular because one more sale.

Advice?

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

do both

CustodialTeapot,

If you donate to the devs, of course they still have to pay taxes. That’s still income.

Ghostbanjo1949,

Just because you give money to someone or something it doesn’t make it a charitable organization that doesn’t get taxed.

glans,
@glans@hexbear.net avatar

Why shouldnt the dev pay taxes?

juli,

If there’s no return service you don’t have to pay taxes in germany, afaik, ianal.

Gallardo994,

WinRAR attitude, I respect that o7

Xanthrax,
@Xanthrax@lemmy.world avatar

I want that on a t-shirt.

BaardFigur,

Git Fork has the same attitude. I bought it

lastweakness,

The Buckets (budgetwithbuckets) budgeting app is also a personal favourite of mine. Unlimited evaluation period, no subscriptions and even a regional pricing program called “Buckets by the Loaf”. I really love how they go about it

pinkwerdo,

The developers of Just shapes and beats also did this.

Jarix,

Remember when blizzard let you install a spawn copy on a friends computer so you could play together?

Also some DS games had similar where only one copy of the cartridge was needed to play with friends. Think one was mariokart DS

Would be a very popular move to letting people play together without everyone needing to be nickel and dimed(i feel like thats also a dated phrase now that i read it. Old gamers remember! Young gamers please help us find cool things, we are old and cant keep up!)

chiliedogg,

Back when Blizzard campaigns were so good you paid for the single-player while the online multiplayer was free.

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Loved playing Mario with my buds that way.

neo,
@neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space avatar

we’re being gacha’d and fomo’d sir

MystikIncarnate,

I feel like this is what bungee was going for with Halo infinite. Multiplayer is free, but if you want the story/campaign, you have to pony up for it.

Too bad infinite was not the strongest game for Lanning… And that it’s requirements are kinda silly… And that it’s huge, even just the free version.

It looks great if you have the hardware for it, but the guys I usually LAN with are all working professionals with bills and mortgages and stuff… No time or money to keep up to date on the latest gaming hardware.

FangedWyvern42,
@FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world avatar

The DS feature was called Download Play. It’s an awesome feature.

FuyuhikoDate,

Now i wanna buy that piece of Software, so i k ow somebody can Pirate it and does not feel Bad about it.

systemglitch,

Smart developers, the make you feel good about pirating and then purchasing when you decide it suits your needs.

Some people just get it.

ipkpjersi, (edited )

You catch more bees with honey than vinegar. Smart developers treat all their users well and then they get the same treatment in return. It’s the smartest way to do things.

ChrisFhey,
@ChrisFhey@kbin.social avatar

This is fantastic. I’ve no use for this software, but I would absolutely purchase it if I did.

lntl,

I just bought a license just because

laxsill,

As an adult, I pay for winrar purely because it helped me so much for free as a kid (especially pirating other software).

nolight,

There’s a FOSS companion app for AirPods on Android and some features are “locked” until you press “Activate” and choose “I’ve spent all of my money on AirPods” as a payment method.

Ispanicus,

Hey, I’ve been looking for a better airpod app in android, mind telling me the name?

isolatedscotch,

CAPod

nolight,

Yes, it’s this app, I didn’t mention it because I wasn’t sure if it was the one with the message.

RVGamer06,

🤣

Melody,

More devs should be this understanding of piracy. So should companies in general.

Asking nicely is a lot better than hitting. More flies with honey than with vinegar.

Maggoty,

To be fair this is an approach that works better with continued use software. Most software that makes headlines are video games that live or die on that first purchase.

pixta_test_trowaway,

interesting

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