I feel the pricing is cheap considering all the included future updates and product support on forums.

Thank you for sharing your experience! We've poured more than 10 years of our lives into Spine and I'm very glad that you like the software.

Pricing is always a sensitive topic. It'd be great if it could be free. We make a lot of free software, but for Spine we wouldn't be able to put as much effort into it for such a long time, our team would be much smaller, and Spine wouldn't be where it is today. Then there is how much to charge. Subscription models are common now, but they are a scam. It'd feel cheaper initially and we'd make more money that way, but it's horrible. I personally refuse to pay for any software subscription, so I don't want to inflict that on others. Related is how to manage upgrades. We would make more money if we made sure every user was squeezed for each upgrade, but we don't want users stuck on old versions as it reduces testing and bug reports for the latest versions. We also don't want to spend effort on a complex upgrade scheme. It's just all around better to give all future updates and have all users on the latest. All that is how we ended up with our current pricing: somewhat high, but a one-time cost. That lacks recurring income, so we have Robin Hood style licensing where large companies pay annually to fund new versions.

The accessibility of Spine is a bit low for certain disabilities, such as color blindness or those with reduced use of the mouse. This is partly because the Spine UI is custom and the features needed are difficult (full focus traversal). We'd like to improve that in the future.

Please feel welcome to share your work here! We love to see what people are doing with Spine.