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by elteto 992 days ago
I mean, why would you expect them not to charge you money for something they clearly spend tons of money in developing? They are a business.

The bait and switch is real, but after N of them we have to start asking ourselves whose fault is it if we fall for the N+1th one.
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zlg_codes 992 days ago
In my case I haven't fallen for anything, but this community seems to have a problem with pointing out it's mostly businesses doing this behavior. If you stay away from commercial software, this crap disappears.

It shouldn't be normal to expect to be exploited imo.

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elteto 992 days ago
It was a rhetorical "you" ;) Businesses will do business things, I don't think we should really be surprised when they decide to not subsidize everyone anymore.

In other words, a company giving you a "free" product like Unreal should be assumed to be a loan that you will have to pay in the future.

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ksec 992 days ago
> but this community seems to have a problem with pointing out it's mostly businesses doing this behavior.

Wow. I was typing "It is fairly recent behavior, at least it wasn't like this before 2014."

Then I realise that was nearly 10 years ago......

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