darken666 posted at 4:02 PM Sat, 19 October 2024 - #4490531

You've clearly forgotten what happened when they released Connect and the encrypted products. The possibility of Connect leading to subscription content was brought up then, but was moderated out, you may have forgotten since moderators like yourself were busy deleting any posts that mentioned the possibility. Also DAZ only agreed to the compromise after a lot of backlash, and they were practically forced into it because they had no intention of listening to customers till they spoke with their wallets. It wasn't swift or painless. 

We probably removed speculative claims, yes, as we do - otherwise people just amplify them and build on them (see this thread for an example). And my recollection is that, while you are correct about the scale of the backlash, the change to time-limiting Connect-only status was pretty brief.

It is clear, however, that any attempt I make to correct specific misapprehenions is simply feeding into the overall conspiracy theory so I will concede the field henceforward.