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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9792859" data-attributes="member: 5948">[ATTACH=full]421295[/ATTACH][URL unfurl="true"]https://x.com/HeroForgeMinis/status/1985400981304328238[/URL]Online miniature customiser Heroforge has been operating for a long time on a subscription model plus charging to download stls of your files or to have them printed and shipped, plus occasional crowdfunding campaigns for major new features.  This is a new departure for them when it comes to payment models.  Components and gear for frog-people, monkey-people and fungi-people are now locked behind an additional paywall in addition to the regular subscription.  Community reaction has been ... predictable.  Understandably, because microtransactions inevitably proliferate like weeds if allowed.  The Heroforge discord is on fire, comments were turned off on the instagram announcement after a similarly bad reaction (though not yet on twitter).  Usual tidal wave of heavy users announcing subscription cancellations.  Time will tell if they have actually done so.Some speculation that this was necessary in order to secure the Darrington press collaboration, maybe they asked too much to be supported with the normal funding model, or maybe that this was necessary to provide clarity for some sort of revenue sharing agreement. I like heroforge and wish them well, but I sincerely hope this endeavour crashes and burns them hard or else the temptation to DLCify and microtransactionise everything will likely be too strong, which will not lead the tool to a good place.</blockquote>

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