Your point? Have some companies dropped support for some of their old plugins? Yes.Can all Native Instruments C/R protected plugins still be activated? How about Novation B/V-Station?Now I hear people banging away at their keyboards "C/R sucks maaaaaan". But think it through for a second, what's the biggest downside of C/R? If the company goes out of business and you can no longer get a response when sending a challenge.
(just a few examples)
Does that mean Roland (or any other developer) will do the same? No.
I can still install Camel Audio's Alchemy even though they left the Windows side of the business many years ago. It's down to how each company treats its customers.
If Roland gets out of the software business and abandons their plugins you'll lose them anyway because the RCM will no longer be supported.
Some of us just want to buy a plugin, install it, authorize it, and get to work. We don't want to be forced to install additional software like Native Access which keeps a constant up/down internet connection through the NTK Daemon.exe even if you're not using any of their software and even if you don't have a DAW running:
Some of us would like to have sole ownership of our most critical computer systems and not allow developers to take any liberties they want with our computers just because we bought some of their software.
Let's be real, Roland is not going to listen to me but since I've been a customer of multiple pieces of Roland hardware going back almost 40 years I'm going to reserve the right to express myself even if it is a lesson in abject futility.
Statistics: Posted by Teksonik — Fri Dec 13, 2024 4:09 pm