One of my coworkers actually introduced us to NGUI, and added it (either his own license or a pirated copy) into some of our project SVN repos for us to see "NGUI in action." Management turned a blind eye since we were still in development stage and we didn't know whether we'd keep it. We decided that we would need a company-purchased version when we found that our version was several iterations behind, so we could update it as needed (without having to pull that co-worker from his other projects to go update it for us). Since then, it's actually been retro-fitted into most of our older projects because it's just
that good and shrinks our app ship sizes and draw calls considerably.
Then someone noticed that NGUI was on sale a few months ago, for only a day or so. Almost every one of us (all of the engineers and most of our artists) bought our own personal licenses during that sale, so we could use our own copies for our personal projects.
So you got around a dozen orders because we had already been using it, loved it, and because a coworker happened to see the sale (if it wasn't for him, none of us would have know it had been discounted). I'm personally deliriously happy with my purchase (I'd have bought the Pro version, but couldn't clear that with my wife
) since I can add it to every new project I create, and the UI is usually the first things that go in. (Actually, a lot of the game mechanics leverage off of NGUI now: not just UI elements, so NGUI is a very embedded part of my workflow.)
TL;DR version: We started with a personal or pirated version at work: everyone loved it so much that we bought a legit copy for work AND each of us bought personal copies.
Now, if you ever discount your Pro (git access) license, I would
not mind an email or PM informing me of the 1-day-only event. (In fact, neither would many of my co-workers.)
