In a message of 04-Oct-99 Shane Cracknell wrote:
>> t> I just wonder why you and others now suddenly "require" refunds or
>> t> discounts or whatever. If you don't want to pay the full price, you
>> t> could simply have waited until the upgrade offer was made available.
>> t> Until then the Voyager 2 keyfile worked just fine with Voyager 3, and no
>> t> registration of Voyager 3 was therefore necessary. If you have
>> t> registered Voyager 3 before the upgrade offer was made available, then
>> t> you must also accept to spend a bit more on the product than those who
>> t> waited.
>> t
>> t Completely agree with that.
> Really?? So what you are saying then.. that it is better to wait till Vapor
> were forced to give a lower upgrade fee because no one was buying and the
> ones who supported it by registering straight away were silly.???
How can you come to that conclusion? If somebody choose to register the
program when only the expensive offer was available, then it is certainly
their choice. But if they choose to do so, then they should not start
whining, when the cheap offer is made available and they suddenly see that
they have spent a couple of pounds more than others.
Both if you register at the full price or at the lower upgrade price it is
great that you want to support the programmer and his efforts to make a
great program, and if you pay the full price even though you actually was
entitled to the lower price, then it is even greater. None of it is silly.
Quite the contrary. [1]
> Anyway i was under the impression that it was a totally new program not
> an upgrade!! it certainly has too many bugs in it to be an upgrade.
Minor upgrade, major upgrade. I certainly can't see why the number of bugs
should make a difference.
> I thought that we were all about helping get the Amiga back on it's feet by
> supporting the authors and their software,
This is on the other hand silly. If you believe that we by supporting the
software authors will get the Amiga back on it's feet, then you are truly
silly. The only thing it will do is to prolong the time that some of us
keep using this computer, and for that reason it is naturally very
important that we register. The Amiga is dead or at least very close to
dying, and nothing implies that anything else will happen in the future
to revive our beloved computer.
> did not realise that waiting was the better move. Ahh well such is
> life. If that is the criteria i might as well get a PC and get screwed
> by a professional.
> But i won't... but i will be very wary in the future about registering
> anything till i know for sure what the marketing strategy is.
Take a look at the Vapor site. Upgrade offers are normally made available.
Voyager 3.0 has not been released as a final product yet, but only
pre-releases for already-registered users. Listen to Chris Wiles: he has
all the time said an upgrade offer would be made available. I certainly
don't think their marketing strategy is hard to understand.
Uffe Holst
[1] If anything is silly in the context of supporting Voyager, then it
might be silly to support this old platform at all, but well - I guess we
still like it more than other platforms.
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