> I don't understand why x-day free trials haven't been replaced with usage-based free trials.
The same reason that people complain about the weapons behavior in Breath of the Wild or why no one uses the fine china: a usage-based trial actually _discourages_ usage.
As someone else said, Scrivener offers this. I downloaded it and wanted to give it a try, but I was always hesitant to fire it up. I always felt that if I did use it and realized five minutes in that today wasn't the day I was going to write a lot, then I had wasted one of my 30 days. People as a whole are loss adverse, and so it is with usage-based trials.
The same reason that people complain about the weapons behavior in Breath of the Wild or why no one uses the fine china: a usage-based trial actually _discourages_ usage.
As someone else said, Scrivener offers this. I downloaded it and wanted to give it a try, but I was always hesitant to fire it up. I always felt that if I did use it and realized five minutes in that today wasn't the day I was going to write a lot, then I had wasted one of my 30 days. People as a whole are loss adverse, and so it is with usage-based trials.