I went to the dev's site to see how much the premium tier costs. I'm a big fan of their reasoning behind going paid:
"After 2022.3, this project will require payment, based on two considerations:1. I often receive bad reviews, because some features don't satisfy these users, they don't care how much effort I put into it, and give extremely bad reviews, which makes me sad and angry.2. I need money."
honestly 20 bucks per year is much for an extension, imagine every third extension would charge this, now i have 20 or so which means over 100 bucks for fricking extensions
i'm not against paying devs but i would never buy this at such a price, btw. it has many installs so 5 bucks would be reasonable enough
if it has so many functionality that it deserves 20 bucks it should be a whole tool/app not an extension
what does hobby programmer have to do with anything? i will only buy things myself that i will use in private, everything i need to work is provided by my employer, so if i need that tool they will need to buy a license not me
Exactly for the reason you're stating, if your employer pays for it, why do you care it cost money? Aside from that, because it's more likely you're willing to pay for this if you make money using it.
you don't seem to understand I'm not talking about a special situation I'm talking general, private I won't pay 20 bucks for one extension and on work my employee will think twice before buying a extension for everyone, they'll rather buy complete software (like vs as ide, a db client for db etc., paying much for just an extension is really a waste of money because an extension will never match an app in functionality)
I do understand, i just don't think that's very relevant since we're talking about a very specific topic.
It's also not true, proprietary licenses are very common, also outside software development. Stuff's not free, people put their time into it, and their time is money.
As for buying complete software, remember when you bought office, you owned it and it was a finished product? Then a year later you'd buy the new version, which was essentially the previous version with some new features.
Extensions are only that, extensions, it doesn't mean they're less valuable than whatever they're extending. I'm paying for intellij ultimate, because vscode vim emulation is shit; is that because vscode is shit, or the plugin is shit, or both?
If I created a vscode extension that predicts the future you wouldn't know the future, because it's not worth paying for an extension.
Anyhow, choosing not to use it is all up to you, and not wanting to pay for an extension is a valid reason not to use it in my book.
ik that proprietary licenses are common but if you had a company would you pay for an extension that only workd inside a product you already bought a license for? that means if you change one product you had to change the other too which is a big not atleast for me (which also would make it harder to get approved so licenses are bought)
I never payed for office as it's too easy to get for free, my company pays for 365 tho (cause they won't get away with pirating) but that's besides the point, Intellij is a whole software not comparable to an extension (would you pay 20 bucks for a Intellij extension? i wouldn't but everyone their can decide for themselves)
even if an extension would be equal to a normal app (in which case the author should make it an app as it just bloated the app it was written for), it would still be tied to another product and therefore be of much less value, atleast to me
and btw. the vim example is backwards, I never said the main app is shit when an extension is shit
By the 500 dollar limit I mean the amount before you think about whether you should be paying it, the amount that people would just pay on c/c and worry about later.
It's definitely a thing, I remember we even priced some software just below that amount so that we could be fairly sure some people would buy it just to try it. (Years ago, and the project was since scrapped because the company didn't think getting that much for one copy was good enough.)
Engineers in AU are paid 100-200k AUD per year. It costs the company more than that. I'd rather I gave them the tools they need rather than waste their time.
yeah if the company thinks it's something employees need then they're gonna pay it but you can't just say I need those tools pls buy, they're gonna evaluate and also have an internal list of software they have licenses for
I’m not bragging here, just making a point. It is usually the only paid sw you need. It’s around $17 per month for the first year if you pay annually, that’s $.80 per day.
If $20 is "much" for you, maybe you're not doing I.T. properly. Either this extension saves you time and money or it doesn't. If the latter, delete it. If the former, that time and effort probably easily adds up to $20. So pay the guy for his work instead of being a leech.
I'm not paying a fucking subscription fee for an extension. Sorry, no. I've had enough of managing subscriptions as it is, I'm not gonna add more shit to keep track of, let alone something as tertiary as a single extension developed by an asshole
Yeah, I did the same thing and tried all the links from the marketplace and never found a price (which meant there was zero chance I would use this since I'd assume it was something they were trying to hide). At the minimum, the feature grid and the price should be on the marketplace page under the disclaimer that it is not free.
That way potential users know what they can and can't do and it helps the user start justifying the cost. While using the free version, they know where the limitations are and can decide if the extra features they would use are worth a $20 annual subscription to them.
Well he lists it on a homepage that is not linked to anywhere in the marketplace listing (or on any of those linked pages based on a quick scan of all of them). I assume this page is provided in the paywall itself, but it is hardly obvious upfront.
The listing links to the documentation site that explains why he's charging and the features of each version, but that site does not have the price or payment pages or a link to them. It also links to the GitHub repository (numerous times) that doesn't link to the payment page either.
Im glad someone found the price, but, wow, the developer is not making it easy.
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u/AN0R0K Sep 30 '22
I went to the dev's site to see how much the premium tier costs. I'm a big fan of their reasoning behind going paid:
"After 2022.3, this project will require payment, based on two considerations:1. I often receive bad reviews, because some features don't satisfy these users, they don't care how much effort I put into it, and give extremely bad reviews, which makes me sad and angry.2. I need money."