On 10 Jul 2005 at 20:58, Michael Cook wrote: [re: non-annual upgrades of Finale:] > There's another thing to consider: many users prefer not to purchase > the upgrade every year anyway: they will wait another year or two > until the latest version really seems to represent a substantial > improvement on the one they're using.
Yes, you're right. For occasional upgraders like me, with a higher price for the non-annual upgrade, they'd be getting more revenue from me. But I wouldn't necessarily regret that *if* the longer development time allowed them to make bigger changes to Finale. I'd pay more money for a couple of areas being completely redesigned/re-engineered to get rid of long-term problems plus a lot of small incremental improvements, vs. the current situation where I wait several years until the number of small incremental improvements accumulates to a point where it seems worth the upgrade price. If the longer development time allowed them to be more ambitious in the evolution of Finale, I'd be glad to pay more. How much more, well, that's a different story. Currently I've been paying $150 or so. Raising that to $200 is probably not going to be an issue. Anything more than that starts approaching the price I paid for the full educational discount back in 1991 ($250). I don't know what the current educational discount price for the full version is, but that's going to be an upper limit on the price for the non-annual upgrade. They may have backed themselves into a corner by overpricing the yearly upgrades, so that they have no way to actually maintain revenues on a non-annual upgrade cycle. Secondly, all you folks who've always advocated paying the yearly upgrade price have trained MakeMusic to stay on a yearly upgrade cycle, which it is pretty clear doesn't allow them the time to implement major improvements. If fewer people purchased the yearly upgrades out of the sense of duty that so many of you claim, then they would have less motivation to continue yearly upgrades. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
