Keyclone, seems like your politics is clouding your argumentation - but let's go over it:

Ever heard of "past performance is no guarantee of future results" - Most business before they close, have been running fine for years... that doesn't mean they don't have accidents...

I'm not saying you should do it any other way than what you wish (as I said "you're free to use the model that works for you; it's your work.") but please don't try to ridicule other possible models; *my* *money* would rather go to a software that doesn't phone home each time to continue to work.

Your analogy with work would be that the day your employer decides to fire you or you quit or die; all the software you ever wrote and he paid for stops working.


(and yes wow is like that, a subscription model; I just don't want another subscription fee and I think the chance of blizzard closing shop are a bit slimmer than Solid ICE's or Freddie's)