T-Racks 3 group buy

[admin]

As previously discussed been demoing the new singles versions of these and liking them overall. See now there is a group buy. Right now it's a 2-1 deal but if 200 more people join over the next 52 days then it will be 3-1, pretty nice deal:

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/Main.html?gr.../index.php

[przechuy]

pretty nice approach to customers i must say

[admin]

I agree, first of all for listening to them to create the singles and then offering this. Now if only SPL offered this ;-)

[przechuy]

i tihnk they just noticed that people are already annoyed with all those dongles srongles shitongles and other painfull security stuff ,horrible pricing etc.They seem to make everything reasonable,me likes it for sure.

[djglenn]

Yeah, if more companies would learn this approach, I think they'd learn something. I remember a professor way back when explaining that with anything digital, all the money goes into the very FIRST copy. All the R&D, marketing, etc....is for the original. Beyond that, you can make practically unlimited copies at little to no cost. So your profit for all the copies is pretty much the amount of money you charge for it. Of course, the companies often don't think that way and try to spread the costs over every unit sold.

Anyhow, main point is, doing a group buy like this only encourages people who would have never thought to buy their product to buy it. Even if they take in less per unit, they'll make more overall. And what does it hurt with downloads? They lose nothing.

[admin]

The cost of plugins is always a good point of debate. It seems that if they dropped prices more people would buy but perhaps some people will pay enough of the higher price to make it worth it. Probably something hard to gague. I pretty happily paid 380USD for the Soundtoys plugins, I think the most expensive ones per unit I've bought. They're good enough though to justify it.

They happen to be on dongle as well as my URS stuff. I don't really mind dongles, it's great that some developers choose not to but can't blame companies for wanting to protect their wares. It's fairly transparent to me and haven't had any issues with iLok like some others have reported.

[przechuy]

dongles,as any other kind of protection doesnt protect software.you can get anything if you want to from pirate sites etc.

It is just a way to make life harder for those that wanted to be honest and paid.

[sven hauck]

It is just a way to make life harder for those that wanted to be honest and paid.

Don't quite understand what you mean. If I were a developer, I'd go to great lengths to protect my intellectual property.

[przechuy]

Don't quite understand what you mean. If I were a developer, I'd go to great lengths to protect my intellectual property.

you are right

but the fact is that those protections can be anyway beaten,because those that break those protections are always "infront" in the race.

Thats why later in reality the only person that will suffer because of protections is a real,regular and honestly paying client mate .And those that do not want to pay and just want to use cracked software will do it anyway,and they wont provide money for company.

And this leads me to a conclusion that developers instead of creating super giga turbo complicated protections and wasting money on it,should use a regular serial number protection ,and for saved money they should lower the prices.I bet that in final accounting they would earn more anyway,and it gains a sympathy of a users.


I am sure that it will happen in near future with majority of music soft producers.It happens already with a lot of software,and will struck also musical soft

[djglenn]

They're past the 3 for 1 deal now