"POLL" Pay for 7.5 on the way for christmas

No sane product owner (a role in SCRUM based development) would allow a product with so many bugs to be released, so I guess it was a terribad management decision.

“Release it. We want MOAR MONEYZ!!1”

We use Corel’s PaintShop Pro and VideoStudio Pro. While online prices seem to be better now, a couple of years ago, just putting in Australia as the currency would jack up the price substantialy, even though the download was served by the same servers.

All this stuff is to ‘protect’ local suppliers who handle the retail boxed product.

Is that a Katy Perry cover?

No, I just took that from the Internets. It’s used to denote insatiable, irrational greed. :wink:

Sorry, I was just being silly, playing on the word. :wink:

Would you explain it to me, please? I’m not actually into mainstream culture (I’m a bit nerdy…). :blush:

+1

I would rather pay a bit and have innovative functionality worth reckoning with rather than have a half-arsed, here-and-there update of scrap leftovers thrown out for free.

It seems to me the content of these version upgrades from Steinberg in general needs to be thought through better. For instance, simply implementing the newest generic Steinberg plugins from Cubase into say the newest Wavelab is transparently redundant and makes for a weak feature list.

So you think pre 6.5 Steiny were always half-assed or just baked half way?

@henceforth: I wasn’t around for that, just considering an obvious alternative due to diminished incentive.

Hi Bane, as long as i don’t miss out on bug fixes, i care less for pluggins but don’t you think equating a plug in with a feature is a little unnoteworthy?

New paid update must bring new features. If there are just bug fixes, then it is still the old version that we already paid for. To charge for bug fixes for functions that were advertised at purchase is unfair in IMO. But, if new functionality is introduced, then paid update is certainly in place. The more new functionality, the higher update price. I’d be happy to pay 200eur for update, if what was new was actually worth 200eur to me. I pay immediately for anything that is worth the investment.

How well something functions is also in the eye-of-the-beholder hence what is “advertised” may not actually be what one envisions for a product.

Cubase among many other products have never quite been up to the standards I “envisioned”. Tonewarping for instance, gets invented for minor cosmetic tweaks and everyone and his pet dragon, including me, envisions totally different uses for it. One man’s bug can be another’s “OH, I didn’t know it was supposed to do that.” and after a few months you find myriad “demands” or it to work one way or another. I go with the outlook that I’d rather clean what sticks to the wall rather than what sticks to the fan.

When’s Scorebase Eleven coming?

Indeed it is as Sonicstate said that no one is going to pay for bug fixes, and if the update is not free the userbase will likely be split as it was last time. Because users who initially paid don’t deserve to be deprived of bug fixes.

Indeed a lot of the features introduced in 6.5 such as plug-ins were simply hype and honestly I don’t use “DJ EQ” or what not but improvement in areas such as comping were certainly welcome. Hopefully Steinberg have been watching Pro Tools developments which cater more toward CPU management and truly enhanced workflow rather than gimmicky “features”.

Katy Perry released a song called ‘ROAR’.

Urban dictionary cites MOAR as a combination of ‘more’ and ‘roar’ (Urban Dictionary: moar), which is interesting as I had thought you just did a typo.

Knowing Steinberg, they usually do not give anything about our opinion and do what they feel best. Just take a dive into the FR section and certain FR’s that still aren’t ported, open Bugfix requests, still not handled support (just go over to KVR and GearSlutz) - just to name a few issues.

But with all the trouble that a lot(!) of us user are having with Cubase 7, the ASIO engine (OS independent), the “Maverick” issue, certain showstoppers like “window handling” (always on top bug comes to mind), the Insert Handling (could still drop certain F-Bombs), etc… It would only be fair to NOT ask for any money until Cubase 8.


But knowing Steinbergs history, that is highly unlikely.
Still voted for “free” though.

If 7.5 comes out soon, does that mean an end to bug-fixes for 7?

There might be a “bugfix” update from 7.06 to 7.07 if C7.5 is the next step. It happened similary with C6.06 and C6.5.

But else, yes… you want issues being resolved - in this case you need to pay money to update and hope that they get resolved. Though there is no guarantee for that.

Looks like the cost is going to be $50 again. The price for a 6.5 to 7 upgrade has just increased everywhere from $149 to $199, I assume the cost difference is for a “free” upgrade to 7.5 (which obviously is not free).