Welp, this sucks, I really liked this one and the guy had improved massively from the beginning. Another one bites the dust I guess.
There's a lot of whining in here about piracy but personally when I went to support the guy I remember finding his pricing tiers to be a bit ridiculous. It's $40 USD per month for day1 access to new releases.
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I doubt I'm the only one that was turned off by the whole 2+ weeks wait time for paying customers (a couple of lower tiers exist, with the ones that actually get access to the game starting at $6 for a 3 week wait time, and two higher tiers exist at $40 and $80 both instant release) - and I'm willing to bet that most of the supporters still pirated the game anyway. I would have most likely grabbed it from here too, but I wasn't going to support someone who was doing that to people who wanted to pay him for his efforts.
IMO the guy had the wrong idea when it came to this site, he used it right initially to gain popularity - then decided to fight it. Instead of accepting that piracy is something that will happen, and continuing to use this site as the incredible resource it is, he tried to ensure that it wouldn't get leaked by asking for large amounts of money and sticking a large wait time in between tiers. So who loses when that happens? Because it isn't the pirates - IMO it's the paying customers. If you're asking someone to pay for something they can otherwise get for free, then one of the absolute worst things you can do is make it less convenient to get it from you.
This is like Netflix, knowing that there is a site they can't shut down that has their entire library available at full quality, for free, deciding to up the price of a subscription and then asking people to wait up to 3 weeks after things have dropped. What on earth do you think would happen in that scenario? Everyone just immediately upgrades to the highest cost plan so that they can get their media on day 1? or is it possible that many who would otherwise subscribe to them might just say "fuck it" and use the free resource?