Minimal Audio Current…subscription
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- KVRAF
- 3398 posts since 6 Nov, 2006
wack
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- KVRian
- 1362 posts since 11 Jun, 2020 from Woop Woop
39 - 0 now. Might as well go and prepare that team meeting / apology / backtracking strategy now Minimal Audio.Choikdoi wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:12 am Half an hour after the announcment and across 2 forums it's 10 posts - 0 in favour of this being a bad decision.
I'm making it 11.
Until forever fades away.
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- KVRer
- 20 posts since 8 Feb, 2021
It's not like Minimal Audio exist in a vacuum. It's just not possible that they didn't notice the backlash against Waves, and yet here we are. Seems like a lot of people are very excited to be able to rent stuff rather than buy, because companies keep doing this ish.
"I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's depressing."
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- KVRian
- 1146 posts since 21 Nov, 2005
Why not sell the synth separately and allow subscriptions for the content? Tbh, I've got Phase Plant, Falcon, Rapid and numerous other super synths that can cover similar ground so would probably pass anyway.KenMyr wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:12 am It's not like Minimal Audio exist in a vacuum. It's just not possible that they didn't notice the backlash against Waves, and yet here we are. Seems like a lot of people are very excited to be able to rent stuff rather than buy, because companies keep doing this ish.
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- KVRAF
- 8674 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
Looks like a decent synth, though the wavetable/granular parts don't interest me. Quite like the GUI etc. But agree with the subscription fail. Probably means that puts Minimal on my avoid list. It's not like there aren't alternatives from proper companies that don't take the piss. Subscription for something like sw plugins/apps actually makes me think the company is directly insulting me. They obvs must think I'm as thick as a very short plank to consider something as stupid as that...
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- KVRAF
- 1870 posts since 8 Jan, 2022
I have all the minimal effects plus a whole bunch of synths and they want me to subscribe for 15 bucks a month???
For one synth?
Melda's subscription is currently 16 bucks a month and you get all their plugins.
Epic fail by minimal audio.
For one synth?
Melda's subscription is currently 16 bucks a month and you get all their plugins.
Epic fail by minimal audio.
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- KVRist
- 70 posts since 28 Jan, 2020
Epic Fail!
Lets say i would subscribe. In 5 years, why am i still paying 10$/month? Still paying the synth off? Or am i paying 10$ for the same presets that i already own by then? And i doubt they will release much new content in some years anyways.
They try to go the "lets get our customers last penny" route, like many others. Many others failed, thank god. Lets hope they fail with that aswell.
Just say NO!
Lets say i would subscribe. In 5 years, why am i still paying 10$/month? Still paying the synth off? Or am i paying 10$ for the same presets that i already own by then? And i doubt they will release much new content in some years anyways.
They try to go the "lets get our customers last penny" route, like many others. Many others failed, thank god. Lets hope they fail with that aswell.
Just say NO!
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 25 Apr, 2022
This will (hopefully) be another example of what happens, if you try to force your customers into a subscription model that only benefits your business with minimal added value for the customers.
After the huge outrage caused by Waves with their move to subscription-only I really wonder how willingly blind or out of touch the decision makers of Minimal Audio must have been to think this is a good idea.
Or maybe it's just this new kind of strange marketing strategy, where a company does something as stupid as this just to apologize a week later and sell perpetual licenses to all the people who otherwise might not even have considered buying.
I, for one hope it backfires as hard as possible without putting them out of business... because I really don't want Rift to become an abandoned piece of software.
After the huge outrage caused by Waves with their move to subscription-only I really wonder how willingly blind or out of touch the decision makers of Minimal Audio must have been to think this is a good idea.
Or maybe it's just this new kind of strange marketing strategy, where a company does something as stupid as this just to apologize a week later and sell perpetual licenses to all the people who otherwise might not even have considered buying.
I, for one hope it backfires as hard as possible without putting them out of business... because I really don't want Rift to become an abandoned piece of software.
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- KVRian
- 1241 posts since 25 Jan, 2017
