[Black Tiger]

No that is the pricing change for normal vBulletin licenses and price changes for updates. Those were known for months and are already long time effective.

I'm talking about these:

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

The pricing for the vB 4 products will change from the current setup. More info will be posted on vB.com once the new pricing structure is final.

And those were -not- known for months or weeks. At least these kind of announcements should be made by email to licensed users. Not everybody visit's the forums every week. I did not see anything in the announcement part of a rise.

I don't need all that other crap, and so do a lot of other people I guess. So there already was a price raise, and now we got another one.
And without the option to be able to only buy or renew only the forum software to version 4 if I understand correctly.
That is not the Lifetime!!! license I bought. I bought a lifetime forum license and I don't want to pay extra because some people in the office think they should put all unnecessary stuff to it which has nothing to do with a forum, like CMS, project, blog or whatever. Where is the legality on changing this lifetime license? My life isn't over yet. At least I hope.

I would like to see some explanation about that.
Because if I buy a windows license, Microsoft can't raise prices because they add a blog and a CMS and whatever. Remember the fine they got for embedding IE and Media Player?
I wonder.....

If that is all true, then where stays the client friendlyness of vBulletin.