MAGESY VANISHED

Saw this post on yahoo answers in regards to the dissapearence of Magesy.com lets hope for its speedy return.

"Magesy was indeed the best and I for one mourn the loss of this brilliant website.
I am sick to death of pious twits like a couple of the respondents on here who lord it over people who have used Magesy. EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO USES THE NET AT SOME POINT WILL HAVE DOWNLOADED A COPYRIGHTED CLIP ON YOUTUBE OR A MUSIC TRACK, OR A PIECE OF SOFTWARE ETC.

I have spent thousands of pounds on music software (over £15'000). It is not good enough to trial a complex piece of software that times out after fifteen minutes and retails at £300. If software is good and I like it I go and buy it, if it is rubbish, I trash it.
Software developers release version 1 software that is more often than not buggy, unreliable and incomplete. We are expected as purchasers to become product testers into the bargain and pay through the nose for the privilege.

The oft-quoted remark that software companies are struggling financially is a joke. I have certainly helped them to survive by giving them thousands of pounds of my own cash, as have many, many others. Magesy provided an excellent way of short-circuiting the paranoid behaviour of the big greedy software houses; Magesy lifted the lid and allowed us to try out some good software, and often, some very poor software, which previously we would have blindly paid hundreds of pounds for.

When you go in to an HMV store they have headphones, and if you choose you can ask to listen to any album you like. This is so you can decide whether your hard earned money should be spent on such and such artist. Magesy provided the same equivalent process for software.

Arturia demand that you spend twenty quid to buy a dongle before you can even try out a demo of their software. TWENTY QUID. Imagine going to a showroom and asking to test drive a car only to be told you will have to pay twenty quid to fill the tank with petrol first. How many people would go on to buy a car from that showroom? Need or greed? You decide.

If software developers feel cheated they have to have a much more honest dialogue with their user base and they have to start being much more realistic with their pricing structure. Why should people pay £250 for a piece of code when they can get a bloody good bit of hardware for the same price? (go see ebay). People will only pay what they think something is worth. Perhaps software developers could take a leaf from Radioheads book and say to their user base - Pay what YOU think our software is worth".

LONG LIVE MAGESY.