If anything that $5 should go to the actual developer.
If anything that $5 should go to the actual developer.
The subscription is their payment. The WA is just a configuration they did. The WA has nothing to do with twitch and is a side thing. I get that saying "Subscriptions allow you to use my UI." It's selling someone else's work. Would you not have an issue if you made an addon for wow, someone changes the color and says their viewers can pay for it? Especially if it's already free, that's pretty dumb.
Pretty sure this isn't correct. WeakAuras is under the GNU GPL, which has no stipulations on what can be charged.
To clarify, "free" has two different meanings when referring to FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) projects and typically refers to "free" as in "freedom". See here for more info.
They are profitting off of their time. People are paying for the work done and the knowledge to set these things up. While I understand thinking paying for a ui is dumb and it is at best in the grey area for tos. The idea that people should hust give things away is some entitled nonsense. Good luck being the Robin Hood of UI though, the bards will sing your songs.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
I'm subscribed to Sloot and others because I enjoy their stream content That's where their money should come from. Outright charging money in order to access an addon is wrong and that's why I think I should be giving his weakauras out for free to anyone who requests them from me.
"I feel bad for Limit , they put in so many hours only to come in second place" - Methodjosh
Good god. OP deserves to get his own post on /r/choosingbeggar.
Charging has never really been a problem, and what you or I think of Fragnance is completely irrelevant to the topic. There's an abundance of great weakaura suites for every single spec out there available completely free of charge. If you have an issue with subbing for weakauras you have plenty of choices. I don't sub to a single WoW streamers and either make my own weakauras (for my main and my guild) or import public weakauras from wago. Why is this even a topic that gets people so riled up? Do you really feel entitled to be able to use something that someone else has spent days working on completely free of charge?
How is this any different from any other sub perk? That includes sub-only raids, sub-only chat, sub-only discord etc. The list goes on. Do you think everyone should have access to that too, even though those who sub are the ones who make it possible for him and other streamers to provide full time daily content for us to enjoy on Twitch?
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Sub only chat and sub only discord are fine because neither of those have any use in game. Sub only raids/ sub only in game events are borderline RMT though and Jdotb was going on a rant about that on twitter and on stream.
https://twitter.com/watch_jdotb/stat...64341720354818
"I feel bad for Limit , they put in so many hours only to come in second place" - Methodjosh
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"How you build your character is not a feature of a MMORPG, it is the feature. Everything else is secondary even the gameplay itself is secondary to building your character, its the kind of stuff you think about when you are at work or school and couldnt wait to go home to play WoW or Diablo 2. We have all done it." ~Into, 2016
They are their own employer. Do you think busines and brand owners don't have jobs? Another example the guy that does my landscaping and pool services employs himself, I will let him know since he doesn't have a noss he doesn't have a job. When some of these streamers and youtubers make 6 to 7 figures you might want to rethink things.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
I think you might be a communist and it is definitely reasonable for someone who creates something to sell it. It is also reasonable for me not to buy what they create. That's how things work.
In my experience the vast majority of people who think everything should be free have never actually done or created anything that anyone else wanted. There are exceptions but that is the general rule.
It definitely seems to be against Blizzard's rules as posted on the first page, but as someone that makes a living by freelance work thanks to a skill I've honed (and struggled a lot when first starting out) I feel for addon makers that spend time creating without being able to profit from it at all.
I think at the very least, addons should be able to say "If you like <addon name> consider donating at <link>." It can be unobtrusive like a small box that pops up once when you log in or even just a line in the settings window.