Re: Normality's 50.000 Downloads

A quick follow-up to last week’s post about Normality reaching 50.000 downloads: While I’m happy that the software is so popular and that it is being put to good use in studios around the world, what I’m not so thrilled with is the ratio of downloads to donations.

So far only 13 (!) of the roughly 55.000 downloaders have contributed to say thanks and to support continued development of the software. Alas, that’s less than 0.1% of all downloaders.
Now I never expected to get rich by releasing a donationware After Effects plug-in… but it would definitely be nice to at least be able to offset my hosting costs.

Maintaining and supporting free software costs time and money that I am no longer able or willing to put in at this rate.