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2 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said:

Ooh, mysterious.

That made me think of Roman in GTA IV.

"Oooo, mystery maaaan" lol

(sorry, I know that's off topic, couldn't resist the reference)

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4 minutes ago, WishfulThinking said:

With respect to Mr. Carr, when the people telling you your actions were misguided consist of both some community members and people with no horse in this race, and the only people insisting otherwise are folks who are likely to harbor significant bias, you should probably pay more heed to the former.

Sincerely, I mean no ill will to the fellow in charge here, I'm sure he's been under a lot of stress and is perhaps lacking experience in this particular area, but if you really thought an email was warranted the situation could have been summed up briefly with a few sentences and a link to this thread included for the sake of interested parties. That way you'd have avoided most of this negative feedback, not to mention it would have come off as orders of magnitude more professional. What we got was petty and downright bizarre. Also, remarks such as:

Might be construed as hyperbole, by like, people who live on Earth.

We're all dumb some of the time. Mistakes happen. In the grand scheme of things this is a pretty small one. A bigger one right now would be letting yourself or your fans convince you this wasn't a mistake in the first place. I promise; this was very weird and out of order. Best of luck.

Surely that's the point though? We're all biased to a degree. We are fans/users of the software. We wouldn't be receiving the email otherwise.

 

I don't think it was much of an exaggeration to be honest. The guy's behaviour was disgusting and unwarranted. As for what he's seen of humanity? We can only speculate so while it may not seem like a big deal to some of us, it's clearly a bigger deal to Jason when it's his livelihood that's being threatened. I'd be upset too and imho it could have been handled much, much worse.

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2 minutes ago, cammelspit said:

Ok, so my last post was deleted for some reason. I hope that wasn't intentional.  Anyways, no I don't care, it happens and is naive to expect otherwise.

Not meaning to sound rude but if you don't care why are you here wasting your life just to tell of us you don't care?

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After receiving notification of the public email that has been shared with us all I have been moved to pop in here and deposit my 2 cents.

 

@Jason Carr

You are a victim in all of this. You were clearly threatened without due cause. The behaviour of this person was despicable and you appeared to handle yourself extremely well with only the best intentions. Do not feel any guilt in sharing this with us and asking us not to betray your kind nature by obtaining a pirated license for Launchbox Premium. There is zero reason for people to be complaining about receiving the email as it is merely a mailing list update. A person can choose to ignore it or unsub from the mailing list without much hassle. However, I can't help but find myself disgusted by the lack of apathy some people are showing towards the whole situation.

"I am a Launchbox user but why is this my problem?" We are the launchbox community and this is our problem!

 

I myself have purchased a lifetime license and I would encourage all users who wish access to the premium features to do the same. It is not expensive. Not in the slightest. It is hassle-free and DRM-free. You couldn't really ask for more. I would never consider sharing said license with anybody (my fiance is also using it but we live together and share a room day and night and also have a shared bank account so in truth we've both paid for it anyway. If this still counts as a breech of terms Jason, inform me asap and I shall immediately have the premium license removed from her machine. I do not wish to cause you any hardship.)

 

The software has been a godsend and worth every penny spent on the premium. Jason clearly stated in the email that nobody needs to feel obligated to do anything so please, I urge you not to complain needlessly. He is not trying to "build an army" or anything of the sort. In fact he is requesting the opposite. Everyone is free to ignore this situation at no detriment to themselves or use of the software.

 

Thank you once again Jason for all your hard work. It is truly appreciated.

[Emumovies discount]

You know, I never noticed that little note on the email before this thread pointed it out to me. Must have discussions with the missus once she's feeling better about picking up a lifetime premium now i know that discount code exists.

 

(apologies if this is considered a nekro. I reached the thread through a search engine and not via navigating the forums.