Reply To: Some Insights On The Challenges and Experiences of an Indie Sample Developer

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On swijaya said

When you said Andrew, I thought it was a different Andrew.

But this Andrew is really decent, down-to-earth, stating today’s reality without throwing accusation left & right. And his appeals & proposed solutions feel sincere and don’t include bad-mouthing others.

I also like his concise writing style.

Andrew Aversa? He’s banned from this community for his practice of using his contractors to make false and malicious attacks on his competitors and hyping his sample libraries and comparing them to competitors (of course, claiming that Impact Soundworks libraries are superior), while pretending to be unaffiliated (these contractors have worked on the libraries they praise and likely make royalties on these libraries, which they hide in their posts). This is all known among the developer community, and I’ve actually had input from developers at VI-Control (the community gets a lot of traffic and brings them in a lot of sales, so it is important for them to be there despite the owner’s bad practices) and it’s why we have certain rules, like requiring developers and contractors and employees of developers as well as influencers to disclose financial relationships in their signature (the developer who suggested it literally referred to Impact Soundworks and how to ensure that those kind of practices are less likely to happen here). You can bet that it will deter influencers from joining this community, which is fine by me if they don’t want to do disclosures.

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