Reply To: NOT A DEAL: Spitfire Has Been Acquired by Splice

[peter]

On Teebacca said

Hopefully the plugin/sample-library industry learned from Waves’ backlash when they tried to abruptly drop perpetual licenses and force everyone onto subscriptions. Let’s hope Splice and Spitfire keep that lesson in mind. I don’t think they’re dumb or unaware of what people are saying, but money does weird things to people. Soundcloud introduced paid tiers and restricted features for free users, leading to user backlash and a decline in its core independent artist community. Spotify continues pushing AI-generated music despite user and artist complaints about quality and compensation. Desperate times i guess

Granted, it’s only a good as the trust one has in these individuals, but if you watched the announcement video above, Paul makes a statement that perpetual licenses aren’t going away. Of course, like anything, that’s not a guarantee that Splice’s CEO will hold to it, but it at least conveys an awareness that these folks are aware that is an issue that matters to many Spitfire customers and, more significantly, to its target market. Now, does that give me confidence that Splice’s CEO won’t try to do subscription only? No. Most larger developers consider it.

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