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Message: <blockquote data-quote="labyrinth" data-source="post: 3406060" data-attributes="member: 48530">How is the licensing system "nasty"? It took me less than a minute to get the product activated. And, unlike lots of other software products I regularly use, they were nice enough to include a free second license to put the product on TWO computers. So I put it on my home computer and my laptop. If I want to put it on a third computer, it will cost me a whole $10 for a third license. [I've been thinking about doing this to have a copy at work to play with at lunch.]Also, you do NOT have to have internet access on the computer where you want to use the product. I thought I saw something about it within the product, so I just double-checked. They have what they call "manual" license activation. Basically, you can use a webpage to activate the license from one computer and copy a keyfile over to a non-internet computer to activate it.So is your complaint effectively that you want the product to be free? If so, then use one of the free tools that are available. You'll get what you pay for. I prefer something of high quality from a company that will stand behind it. That entails that I actually part with a few dollars. I don't know about you guys, but I'm used to spending $60 on computer games nowadays and hundreds of dollars on other software I use regularly. I spend a LOT on RPG gaming stuff every year. So I don't mind spending a whole $30 for a well-written piece of software that will be highly useful on an ongoing basis. Maybe it's just me, but the time I spend wrestling with a tool is time I've lost. That time has a value. For $30, if Hero Lab saves me an hour over a free tool, I'm ahead of the game. Even if that hour of savings comes in 5-minute chunks of time, it's still a win for me.Having been an Army Builder user for a long-time, I also don't find the $13 per year that they charge unreasonable. It's no different than spending $40 every three years to buy a major new upgrade to the product. Since it's the same amount of money to me, I really don't care. And if it keeps the company in business and making great software products that I can really USE, everybody wins!</blockquote>

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