[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Sugoi na

Sorry but I just purchased 2 licenses no more than 2 months ago... If anyone should have a discount it's the poor saps like me who will end up paying $180x4 in under a 3-4 month span...

Maybe if I had my licenses for 2 years & the economy wasn't shot the way it is, then sure.. They need the cash. I will gladly assist but... for simply a face lift? It's not worth the price. I will be sitting this one out =/

Yes, but, who's making you pay $180x4 in 3 month span? Your trying to maintain your old behaviors in a system that is fundamentally changing.

Originally Posted by tlwwolfseye

I agree. You can?t ask people that still do have their 1 year License running, where they paid for already, to buy it again within the time it was supposed to be included in the money they bought vB for. If its Version 4, 5 or 6, it doesn?t matter. When you buy a License for vB it doesn?t say that major Version Updates will cost extra. So you cant ask what you didn?t put into the contract in the first place.

If vBcms would have asked me to pay again when they switched from Version 1.x to 2.x, within the time I bought the license for, I would not have stayed with them. But they didn?t. So i suggest if you don?t want to loose a lot customers on the long run you give the Update to Version 4.x for free when a license is still valid. Except of course vB is like Valve, which means that they also can change what they want, when they want and you have to agree. But they at least pointed that out in their EULA from the start. No after suprise.

Just my 2 cent.

But you see, that's just the thing. You could be dealing with the most transparent and honorable service in history, and you would still be running the risk of a mid-shift policy change. This is why so many companies stagnate while upstarts move in under their noses. They worry so much about angering their base, that they fail to improve the quality of their product. vB is moving forward. It sucks, but ultimately, only sucks for a minority who got their licenses close to the new version (and we still haven't really heard what their going to do in those cases. I think we're jumping the gun here.) For the future of the product, sometimes you have to loose a few customers if your going to have any more or succeed as a business.