This latest Anagram update has really highlighted how society has become a bunch of privileged, whiny, entitled babies. The walls of text people are writing on Facebook to justify their meltdowns is just wild. Maybe if these people were as passionate about doing literally anything else other than complain, their lives wouldn't be so pathetic and unfulfilling that their only source of joy is ranting in a comment section.
It's also really clear that most people don't have even the slightest understanding of what goes into developing a physical product and successfully bringing that to market. And if that physical product requires companion software, that is an even higher degree of complexity and risk.
Darkglass is NOT a large company, even though they are owned by Korg. If they had waited to release the Anagram until development of every feature was 100% finished, they likely would have gone bankrupt before it even reached market. That's why you see so many companies do Kickstarters, presales, or other forms of crowdfunding. The injection of capital is necessary to fund the development process.
And, releasing a decent initial software build to the public, like Darkglass did, then iterating on that frequently (as they are doing) allows them to get ongoing feedback from users around what is working and what is not, which informs their development priorities and features they choose to prioritize.
People keep screaming for a synth like it is something Darkglass can just go to a store, pick off the shelf, and drop into the Anagram. It took Panda Audio years to develop the Future impact, and they are continuing to release new and improved versions. Devloping the C4 Synth was an enormous risk for Soucre Audio given the complexity of the undertaking, and also took them years. Development of the MXR Bass Synth took over a year at least.
I sincerely hope the synth from Darkglass doesn't come any time soon, because rushing something like that will result in it being absolute garbage. Imagine how people would b!tch and complain if they rushed it out and the tracking was terrible, or the interface was not user friendly.
Most video game companies sell their consoles at very little profit, or at a loss, and rely on sales of games to make actual profit.
Ok. That's more than enough internet for me for one day. I'm going to go play with the new ring mod and bit crusher plugins that I bought for the Anagram
