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Originally Posted by gmw
I was supposed to be working, but your comment had me wondering, so I did a little more investigation...
* The executable is dated Feb 2011, and is identical to the executable I downloaded 6 years ago so it's not just a date glitch - hard to believe it was that long ago that I looked at this last.
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Yeah, I've in a bit of a quandary about it. I "kinda" like it. How it handles characters, locations, AND all those essential little things that seem unique to a specific story is nothing short of brilliant.
The old software developer in me is very impressed with the whole package overall. It's logical and functional, and seems to work well, no glitches of any sort so far. I can sort of see what the developer did and why he/she made many of the choices he/she did; and for the most part, they seem logical and correct to me.
(though of course I can't evaluate the underlying code)
The writing environment is quite good compared to the freebie competition. I would classify it easily as good as Quoll Writer for writing.
EDIT: After pursuing my story with it this afternoon, It's WAY better!
It IS intimidating with all those floating windows, but I was able to get functional with it after about 3 hours with it. That's about the same as with yWriter.
BUT-It does seem to be 'almost abandonware' that we are expected to pay for. User Reviews and mentions of it seem to stop after about 2014.
I really love its elegance and functionality, but I don't love how it is being ignored
(maybe cost effective ongoing support would require a rewrite that wouldn't pay for itself in sales, great software can still be too expensive to support!)
I would say that
I could NOT recommend paying full price for this product. That the half price offer is its 'natural' market price compared to the competition, both free and commercial. I think software junkies and the terminally curious who write would love it.
Writing this response helped me sort out my feelings about this software, I think I'm going to buy it, at half price, naturally.