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You know people like to complain about things and how everything is worse these days, but this is exactly how shareware operated back in the day.
by legitster 2y ago
You know people like to complain about things and how everything is worse these days, but this is exactly how shareware operated back in the day.
- Nextgrid 2y agoShareware at the time was generally a one-off purchase though.
- littlestymaar 2y agoWith shareware, if something had been working for years and the developers released a new version when everything became premium, you could have stayed on the previous version. Not with these cloud tools, and that's why enshitification is a thing when it wasn't before.
- relaxing 2y agoAs I recall the shareware authors would describe at length how those features cost development time that you the contributor were funding. The word we had for programs with features removed in this punitive and egregious manner was crippleware.
- HumblyTossed 2y agofirst three levels are free! But if you actually want to beat the game, you have to buy it.
- Gud 2y agoUntil you ran the crack.exe. Even came with nice music :-)
- bananapub 2y agothis is not at all how shareware worked
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]