total rip off if you ask me,i for 1 will not be getting this and may revert to phpbb in the near future as i ain't paying that amount.

1 word describes it all - GREEDY

i be as well getting the suite now as I be cheaper to get that than getting just the forum

The forum is $195.00 for a new license and $175 to upgrade.
The suite is $250 but i get a discount that makes it $130.00

so i be cheaper of getting the suite even though i don't need it LOL

Same for me and my friends board as well. We use the blog addon quite extensively. I'd say it came out less expensive to go for the full-blown thingie. Funny enough, I personally voted for a change to Phpbb3 since it has a converter all set up for vB 3.x but I was voted down by other boarders. We're a small private board with only around 20 members so this deal will be waay over the top for us. There are two showstoppers with PhpBB3 though. Blog and photoalbums are missing. If it werent for that, well be over on the Open Source trail in no time.

Keep us posted vB-staffers.

wow, just wow.

i don't like to pay

What really sucks is that if I had known this months ago, i could have just done a lease for $100 and saved $80 towards this new version. Instead, I feel like I must just hang out with 3.8 until 5.0 comes out as upgrading to 4.0 means I can no longer use CMS or mostly all of the current add ons.

Not only that, but if you've invested in your template, you will also have to shell out more money for another one. Maybe by the time 5.0 comes out, there'll be at least a couple free templates.

Is intolerable .. According to your words now have a license to the Inactive the license again! Do you call this development?

Hasta la vista, Baby.

Closed thread as per Discussions on vBulletin 4 and licensing.