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Is there anything anywhere that said my lifetime license would expire at a certain version if I didn't keep paying the support fee, even when I don't need support? I don't recall seeing that part anywhere.
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most people like vbulletin because of the third party mods, large forum owner community for exchange of ideas... and of course Vbulletin's support & updates (somewhat) besides, the offer doesnt seem enticing enough for existing users to re-subscribe and they are forcing us to take up the offer in 2 weeks. granted, the new vbulletin suite looks promising and a 1 time payment to ensure security updates for the entire 4.0 suite. however, how can vbulletin license holders be sure that the new software is really so good that third party modifications cannot rival? we already have vbadvanced which is quite a simple free-add on to use and article forums as a free third party mod. the keyword here is "free" if you havent noticed. this huge upgrade fee is something serious to ponder over. prefer the old pricing and hope vbulletin will reconsider all that we've mentioned... |
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Its not the fact that its a completely different way to pay for vbulletin thats pushing people away, its the fact that its probably going to double the cost of maintaining a license. |
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btw, i was checking in the site, yeah my OWNED board license is expired BUT, my vbulletin blog license is active |
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:erm: I'm going to remain calm and wait and see whats happen but it doesnt smells good here. Oh and btw ..I'm with vbulletin because of the mod's that people release here for free. In times were even the biggest companies are lowering down their prices Jelfson and vBulletin does exactly the opposite, mmmm, flash news: in case you haven't noticed the economy (globaly) is going down the drain, how dare you be so greedy?. |
Ok, looks like i'll be switching to IPB or even phpBB.
I'm not going to let them rip me off like that! |
I've always appreciated the professionalism of this company, but the way they are marketing vB 4.0 is just a shame.
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I am guessing that they are in financial trouble, to basically blackmail people into buying something that is not complete and has no release date (not even a guess) suggests a rush to bring in capital. I would be careful paying the upgrade tbh as what will you get if they go bust in the next few months? There are several other platforms which you can convert your VB forum. I think it will show very soon whether this is a dash for capital or just plain greed as once they realize a very large portion of people can't afford such a massive hike in fees they will need to change something or pretty soon there will be a domain holding page where vb.com was.
People saying it is not much of an increase should look at the maths. I have an owned license paid something like $180 for the software and $45 a year or whatever to keep updates means on the old structure for 4 years you would have paid $315 or $6.00 a month (decreasing the longer you own it). On the new structure That would be $285 and most likely $235 a year updates which is $990 or $20.65 a month in other words they have more than TREBLED the monthly fees. Nice work if you can find it. |
Project tools as an open source project on vbulletin.org very well i'm lost $50 thank you vbulletin
Welcome ipb :rolleyes: |
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I'll repeat what I've said in a couple of other threads about vBulletin pricing/licensing - "Questions regarding pricing and licensing should be asked over on vbulletin.com. vbulletin.org has nothing to do with the business side of vbulletin." |
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