Gotta go with Grey Alien on this one.
Rob's been very helpful in the past (especially to noobs like me a few years ago), but I don't think anawiki's promoting of his software was in any way begging or distasteful. $14USD of the retail price seems more like an inducement, nudge, or promotion for buying software made with a Blitz product.
Lots of people do that, but no one got tagged as a beggar for doing so. Apparently asking straight up for a sale seems to rub some people the wrong way.
The way I look at it, if BRL forum users (people who paid for a Blitz product) are offered what appears to me, a huge discount for an item that otherwise would have been passed up. That's good marketing! A sale for 30% of retail vs. 0% of retail (no sale) is still a win.
Rob's been very helpful in the past (especially to noobs like me a few years ago), but I don't think anawiki's promoting of his software was in any way begging or distasteful. $14USD of the retail price seems more like an inducement, nudge, or promotion for buying software made with a Blitz product.
Lots of people do that, but no one got tagged as a beggar for doing so. Apparently asking straight up for a sale seems to rub some people the wrong way.
The way I look at it, if BRL forum users (people who paid for a Blitz product) are offered what appears to me, a huge discount for an item that otherwise would have been passed up. That's good marketing! A sale for 30% of retail vs. 0% of retail (no sale) is still a win.