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5th September 2024
Yesterday the latest issue of Computer Music magazine showed up on the Pocketmags app.

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Hurray, said I. The new "Plugin Suite v3" is out!
I jumped through the hoops to download the 3+Gb of plugins, and opened up the big zip's contents.

And, boy, what a disappointment.

Almost every single one of the new plugins, freshly added to the archive, had the following (or similar) .pdf attached.



Although the plugin suite did indeed contain over 3Gb of plugins, nearly all of those were the old V2 plugins.
Whatever was new wasn't actually in the bundle, and you have to jump through hoops to gain access to them.

Now, look, I'm not being a gimme-gimme-gimme idiot, here. I understand that data = payment, so heading to the site giving them your email, verifying your email, etc, is all part and parcel nowadays.

But, here's the thing..
For decades, that's been IN the app/utility/game.
You open it up for the first time, enter your details, and everyone's happy.

Not now, though.
Now you have to jump through 100 hoops to get the "free" thing, and then STILL have to sign in once you're all done.
I don't know why this has become harder to do.
Sure, people would've "easily" pirated it, in the past. Used a keygen, no need to register.

But.. .. They'd probably still do that, anyway. And this is supposed to be "Free". Why is "pirated keygen" easier than "Free"? Why is this happening?

I can't understand this mentality.
My games, tools, and more, are all free.
They're available in (usually) a single click, I won't ask for your name, let alone your email address, and you don't have to log in to use them, or god-forbid install an installer to use the bloomin' things.

Free should be Free, and if you need to ask for an email, do it inside the thing that's free, instead of making everything harder for everyone.

So frustrated by this whole situation.

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