Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Inconceivablezen]

Any news for a new FREE sub? financially still hard here and I'm past 6 months of E1 5g sub?

Unfortunately, things are difficult for us as well, both because of the pandemic making our customers have financial hardship and because of certain other issues I haven't talked about.  Plus, because of the complexity of building subs in 5.75.5G, I'm struggling to keep putting out paid subs fast enough right now.  So no free subs for a while.  Sorry.

Hey Shannon, perhaps I can give some unsolicited advice here: you could make E2 free, technically, and still create an incentive for people to buy E3, which will bring in additional money.

In fact, once people use E2 and realize it's a great program, I think they're more prone to upgrade to E3, or another program because they see the value in your offerings. Also, this strategy wouldn't cost you too much time because Ben could just take care of the effort. 

Just thinking aloud here, if you think it's a bad idea, discard my thesis!

Edit: I own E2, and not yet E3, but, the only good counterargument I can come up with is that SOME people would think it's unfair that they've bought E2 for $100, if it's now made freely available. And yet, the counterargument against that counterargument is that 1) people have had the ability to benefit several years from that purchase already; 2) E2 is YOUR intellectual property, not that of the customer.