OwainOwjo Wrote: Having hearing out some of your arguments, you hold some strong and valid points.
I 100% understand the argument of "you're taking a big risk buying addons on a server that may never profit". It's a ballsy move to drop large amounts of money on something that may never go anywhere. But seeing it from thepoint of view of both a creator and consumer it's a funnyone. From the view of a creator, I see it as kind of selfish and disrespectful. You should be willing to take the risk if you want a successful server. However on the view of a consumer, I fully agree that it's a scary thing and it's just not something you really wanna do, some addons can be $10+ and it's a lot to ask for some entities on a gmod server (Not to kiss my own ass but that's the reason I price my work so long, I understand that it's a lot to ask for gmod addons. Although that has resulted in my work being easy to obtain through leaks.). And that leads intohow I also agree that once you can, you should convert to paid legit versions of the scripts. Not only is it respectful, it's also a lot more secure.
I use to think that not being able to refund scripts because I could still use the script was pretty stupid too. But once I started selling work my view changed. I've been played with so much it's insane. Some people are real assholes. I've had people ask to transfer script ownership to another account to then leak it. I've had people using leaks add me on steam for support for me the help them and then them tell me "Well, I'm using a leak lol" and block me. There's just no trust factor in this market and as a result it's not worth risking a refund for them to just backstab you. I'm sure you personally would be good to your word, but not everyone is. Although, I see your point on broken scripts not being refunded. Although, I'm pretty sure that gmodstore themselves have refunded people a few time on inactive devs. (Don't hold me to that) I can't talk much on that topic because I've never had anything like that happen personally.
I'll never convert to a DRM, my scripts are cheap enough that "most" people are willing to buy them if they really want them. Many of your arguments are strong points and I see why people use leaks. But being on the other side of it also allows me to see the negatives.
I completely agree with your statements, I don't know if you already do this but I advice to just take support on GModStore. I've actually bought a couple scripts from GModStore but never planned out leaking them. All the leaks I leak are from my friend's server, he quit GMod. I've bought expensive scripts like Prometheus. Taking a big risk is what is needed for starting a GMod community. It's basically starting a business, entrepreneur.
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