>For the most part, the paid consumer software market is dead. What do you mean? Was it anytime alive? Also, don't people buy, for example, games more than eve

>For the most part, the paid consumer software market is dead. What do you mean? Was it anytime alive? Also, don't people buy, for example, games more than ever? And I don't mean the micro-transaction stuff, I mean the more traditional, paying upfront stuff. And back then there were lot of demos, shareware, freeware and shitty DRMs that were easy to crack. I'm not seeing a healthy consumer software market - at any point of time.