>>7802171>GoG exists and the Witcher Games remain incredibly successful despite the ease of piracy.The Witcher games are 30+ hours long and heavily dependant on your choices, they are not a good example. There's also the technical competency of pirating a game. For us it might be trivial, but when I see most people try to do it they end up (at least ended up some years ago) getting taskbars everywhere on their browser and no game
>Literal books have been uploaded for free by the authors and this has resulted not only in large increase in sales of those books, but of their other books as wells>But if you're confident in what you produce paywalling can do more harm than good.Sure, having some part of your content that's free so people can see if they want to pay for the paywalled content is very important. Which is what all Holos make with their membership. I agree with you that having only paywalled content will make you go behind pretty much anyone that has a free tier. On the other hand, once you've proven your value to people, a lot of them will agree to become paying customers. Most holos have really low memberships because they don't offer much exclusive content, but if they offered more I'm pretty sure they would get way more
I think we mostly agree that considering how internet works, a good balance of free content and paywalled content is necessary
