Damn reverse karma!

So, okay, one thing I'm bad about is paying for computer software. Let's be honest, I'm not going to pay $700 for Photoshop, and when it comes to shareware, at least on the Mac, a lot of people who make software are smoking crack when it comes to how much they think their stuff is worth.

But, the other day, I broke down and purchased something called Flip4Mac. It lets one play WMV and WMA files in QuickTime, and seeing as how Microsoft's Windows Media Player sucks for Mac OSX, I thought it would be a nice piece of software to have. Plus, it was only $10, so hey. (They have multiple versions for various prices, but if you just want playback, it's $10.)

That probably was only like a week ago now.

So what do I just get in my e-mail inbox? A message from the company who makes Flip4Mac, saying that the playback-only version of the software is now free. Seriously, the last shareware I paid for was in 2002, and here I finally break down and pay for something else, and a week later it switches over to being free.

Teaches me to try to be an honest person, I guess.

Why didn't you just use VLC or Mplayer?

I don't think they support wmp10 files.

They also don't do things like preview movies in the Finder, provide the backend for Front Row, play embedded movies in websites, and so on and so on.

(Flip4Mac, however, so far as I know, also doesn't handle WMV 10 at this point.)

Cool, didn't know all that. Guess I'll go download Flip4Mac for free! :lol:

Since it's only been a week, I'm sure they would give you your money back. Have you tried e-mailing them?

Also, that's not "reverse karma." That's just karma.

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Originally Posted by Schlep

Cool, didn't know all that. Guess I'll go download Flip4Mac for free! :lol:

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Same here! I'm glad to see we can all profit off of shidoshi's shitty luck.

Regardless, I'm sure they'll give you your money back. I mean, for Pete's sake, it was a week's difference.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Plus, it was only $10, so hey.

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Seriously. This isn't like you just bought Photoshop and then it turned free, you tossed a few bucks to a developer that makes a program you like. Lord knows I've meant to do that for the makers of Azureus considering how much I've used their software and how much joy its brought me.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

Regardless, I'm sure they'll give you your money back. I mean, for Pete's sake, it was a week's difference.

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I would hope so, or they should at least upgrade him to the cheapest payed version.

They're offering a $20 credit towards one of the higher-end versions for people who purchased the player, so that's nice. And like I said, I wasn't really all that upset - it was more the humor in my finally paying for software and then getting "screwed."

It also seems that Microsoft now has something to do with this, so there's a chance that they may be dropping their OSX version of Windows Media Player, and just releasing this.