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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Chestah
This puts Patchou in a really weird position.
No it doesn't...
Reasons? People are continually becomming more conscious of spyware/adware etc and even though we know that it is not this and its merely an optional sponsor the average public don't know this. No matter how much advertising and helping people, some just won't understand and will not use plus - this may be a minority but i can only see this increasing in the future. As people learn more about spyware they'll just categorise msgplus! as bad straight away before even investigating that its optional.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
The point is to promote Messenger Plus!, not to promote all the various unofficial sources where you can download Messenger Plus!.
Although, less people will stumble across Messenger Plus! now, this doesn't mean it goes against the purpose of promoting it...
Patchou wants maximum visibility with the new version of Plus! Esp. because of the new custom emote sound feature which will attract even more users! The point of this competition is to let more people know about Plus! hence more people downloading it and using it!
Its discouraging while in the background many unofficial download sources that inevitably promote Plus through visibility are removing Plus! from their sites! As i said above: as more people are becomming aware of what dangerous spyware can do companies are mass producing anti-spyware software that catergorises Plus! as dangerous for your computer - even though we know even if the sponsor is installed its not dangerous at all, the general public will believe their anti-spyware software.
Basicially what i was saying is that Patchou wants to promote Plus! Get more people using it and hence he can continue to add even greater features due to a greater profit in the long term that he couldn't do before without this (Custom sounds servers). All the background activity going on at the moment which i only see to increase in the future is going against Patchou's original purpose of this promotion.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
(thus) No it isn't... The competition/promotion is for Messenger Plus! itself (and to download it from the official site, not for all the unofficial sources to download from.)
Yes the competition is to promote Plus! - so more people will start using Patchou's software. Promotion = Attracting more users. With download.com simply removing programs such as Plus! this will automatically slightly lower the amount of
new users downloading Plus! Initially this might not be much, except more people as a result of this will more vary of what Plus! contains in the installer and as a result a possible multiplyer effect in the future could happen. More sites might remove plus or contain negative publicity = less users downloading.
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Originally posted by chris4
Just because one site gets rid of Msgr Plus! doesn't mean it won't be as popular.
True for the meanwhile, but as i've said above: more people are starting to think Plus! contains dangerous spyware and as more sites follow download.com's example this means even more (slightly) people won't know about plus that their could be if their was no sponsor. Also theres the issue with anti-spyware programs.
That's why Patchou's in a slightly strange predicament. He needs the optional sponsor program to live and to continue programming Plus! I'm sure that if everyone realised that the sponsor was not dangerous and it was completely optional there would be no problems. But not everyone knows this, espicially people that don't know alot about computers. All the recent action against programs even containing optional sponsor programs in the future could be even worse for Plus! and Patchou.
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