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ImageLine software make a very popular audio production program called FL Studio that has been sold on a “pay once, free upgrades for life” basis for about 25 y
by enneff 4y ago
ImageLine software make a very popular audio production program called FL Studio that has been sold on a “pay once, free upgrades for life” basis for about 25 years. It has been cited as the most installed piece of music software. The product is wildly successful and the company is doing very well AFAIK.
This is in stark contrast to the other major players in the field that charge a similar amount to upgrade to the next major version.
I think in the case of mIRC the lifetime model may have continued to work had IRC continued to grow, but it didn’t and the users went elsewhere.
- alt227 4y agoIronically IMO most of the users went elsewhere because it seemed like mirc wasnt being updated very much and got left behind the times whilst other platforms like slack and discord took irc and built actual useful things on top. Now the mirc developer is claiming he updates the software so much he needs all the people who already paid him to pay him again, meanwhile slack and discord remain free (ish). So backward.
- Macha 4y agoSlack is freemium, subsidized by the big enterprise customers and the free offering is a funnel to some people that may eventually be big customers. Discord is funded by VC money and the users they've managed to convince to pay for emoji. How much of column A vs column B is unclear at this point