Well, the copy protection is not bothering me, I got the key and registered it. I was thinking about all the people still waiting for their email with sn. But you're right, they've made it free for limited time only, though it would be really hard for me to pay for something now, that was free few days ago...ZINO wrote:@ Tehnik
The elimination of copy protection of promorional / limited time / whatever software offers, TOTALY MAKES NO SENSE. They are essentially giving away their work for free to you, and you are moaning about taking 10 seconds to register it...
Be grateful or DON'T USE IT, if it bothers you so much!
Also - it's Waves after all, sound quality of their plugins is undisputted, so not expecting enormous demand for free plugin would be insane
they should prepare for this, knowing how it ended for other companies (MiniMoog rings a bell?)Online installer doesn't count, especially when their servers were hammered. I like to have all my plugins installers backed up on hdd, just in case I needed to reinstall/repair installation with internet gone. Also offline installers are more solid. and please tell me one, single, serious advantage of the shell system?standalone wrote:The Waves installer is just 2,63 MB and the only plugin that it downloads is the one that is going to be installed. They also install their license center and the shell that manages all their plugins. That's their system and it makes sense for them because they have dozens and dozens of different products.
I know we are complaining about free software, but ffs it's not that we're not grateful - we are, the plugin (for those who were lucky enough to get the license yet) is really nice, but the fact that it's free doesn't automatically give them the allowance to smack us in the face with their fist.
