Ultros wrote:
They are enabling the wealthy and treating the poor as second class citizens when technically anyone who owns an MPC technically already paid them for their future development.
We all paid and we paid well and having them dangle shit in our faces while the scene moves on and some people get left behind due to finances is proper f*cked.
I asbolutely appreciate what you do for the community but i strongly disagree here. Since when do buy anything because you hope for and expect free future updates? Bugfixes and new OS features (to some extent ) sure but additional plugins? And you buy something like an mpc for what it does NOW and everyone needs to decide themselve if that‘s value enough or not. And to be fair, you get really a lot for your money already.
No one
neeeds this additional plugins to be almost limitless creative, there is a ton of free stuff in this machines already. And it seems they learned their lesson, the first bunch of plugins was way overpriced but the price for mini D or flavor pro seems fair to me. If we want akai to keep the motivation high than i‘m fine if they make some extra cash with plugins (as long as they don‘t forget to develop the OS further). I also don‘t think anyone who can afford an MPC or force is „poor“ in my books. This are still luxury objects compared to what
really poor people have to deal with. Just my 2 cents…