Not entirely. Suppose 70% of nuendo users don’t buy the nek, and suppose the alternative was to get rid of it and sell the total packaged upgrade at 300 instead of 400 (where 150 is the nek portion):
(70x250)+(30x400)=17500+12000=29500
versus
100x300=30000
You see it? More profit with a lower price. And with that lower price comes less confusion, less nuisance, less work to program/manage the separate versions. A win for everyone. Basic maths. And ‘yes’, in the old forum it was said that about 70% don’t bother with the nek.
Also, a new copy of cubase used to be about $500. So a user was faced with the prospect of either paying 150 for the nek features plus the next version of nuendo all rolled into one app only, or pay another 100 and have two apps and licenses - one for post, and one for music.
But if you were a user that bought nuendo 5 for example, with the nek, and then was faced with upgrading to v6 with or without the nek you WILL look at the additional features that are included in the separate portions - the main daw and the nek portion. And if you decide you don’t need the extra nek features what happens? You can’t use the previous nek functionality in the new version, right? Hardly convenient.
Lastly, if you’re a post facility of course you don’t care about $150 in savings. Why would you? It’s peanuts. In New York if you can’t charge that for an hours work in your space then you don’t have clients over period, because it’s too expensive. Which leaves working from a space with less overhead and no clients attending, in which case your fee amounts to working two to three hours for that portion of the upgrade. In either case the amount is so low that it’s pointless to quibble over, meaning why not just get rid of the separate pricing because it simply doesn’t matter.
Now let’s hope the powers that run this place declare that we’ve had this discussion one too many times and promptly lock this thread. This is a forum for discussion, not politics.