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I think this one asks you to pay for it after a bit. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just felt bad about getting a little bit in, and then being hit with a decent pay wall.

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Right, I mean, author has the right to do this -- but it still seems like a gloriously stupid thing to try to get someone to pay for in this way; like what market is this?

Like, I'd bet "Pay $10 if you like it" / ReaperWare would earn this person literally an order of magnitude more money.

Yep. I was trying to buy some licenses for my school, and they only offerend subscriptions in which I am not interested. A shame! Such a great game.

>ReaperWare

What does this mean? All I found on the Google was a company that produces sim racing gear.

Presumable the pricing model for Reaper? https://www.reaper.fm/purchase.php

haha you got it

Wait, I'm the first to say that? That should be a thing.

Thank you for the warning.

I found a pricing dialog after clicking “buy a license”, it said that six months of full access to the game costs $35.

Personally, I would happily pay for vim-adventures, but never monthly. It provides one-time value, it should have one-time cost. I'd much rather pay a one-time cost and get a downloadable local copy.

I paid for it, was worth it for me. Reason: I did vimtutor 4 times and was learning but found it super painful/boring, but really wanted to learn vim keybindings. Vim adventures made learning keybindings and muscle memory just tolerable that I could do 1h in the evening even after a long/busy/tedious day. I probably would have persisted learning vim keybindings without it, but it definitely made doing so less painful.

A free alternative for learning just hjkl, nethack supports this way of moving[1]. Remember to keep your index finger on ‘j’ (don’t shift your hand to ‘h’), to build the muscle memory.

[1]: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Direction

I paid once, but it's valid only for 6 months. I would reuse it once in a while for fun, but I won't pay again and again.

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