Forum: Vue


Subject: E-on software Announces Vue 4 Professional (Questions Answered)

Lynn opened this issue on Sep 08, 2003 ยท 75 posts


Krall posted Wed, 10 September 2003 at 8:07 PM

I have two very important questions about what I quote now: "Post Vue-Pro sidegrading. Vue Pro is a limb on the tree for Vue 4 owners. The Esprit product line has a future. If you side-grade to Vue Pro, you can still upgrade to the next Esprit when its becomes available. This is an option only planned for Vue 4 owners, by the way :-)" Question number one: 1. Does this mean that Esprit will have new content, that Pro does not have? Must be so, else why upgrade Esprit if one already has upgraded to Pro. In that case, which are the areas in where Esprit will have more features than Pro? Sincerely, I would hate to spend 300 bucks on upgrading to an application that is going to lack features that the normal Esprit version is going to have in a matter of (probably) months... Sincerely, this marketing move leaves me wondering.... and makes me more and more dubious of giving you my money (the big money that you are asking) for Pro (a purchase that I was sure about only until a few hours ago)... you see, other companies have different products at different levels, BUT, like Maxon, the top line application of Cinema has EVERYTHING that the other Cinema editions have. I suspect there would be a revolution amongst the Studio Bundle owners if they found out that the cheaper Cinema options will have features unavailable to them... i guess you get the point now. Question number two: 2. isn't a bit too hard on Vue 4 owners, to ask them now to give you credit for upgrading at 300 bucks to a new app that (amongst other things) doesn't really have anything new in the rendering department, that is really oriented towards animation BUT still requires the further purchase of Mover (other 100 bucks) to get the most out of the animation possibilities, and, in case of Cinema and Lightwave, still requires the purchase of Ozone (other 150 bucks), to get the most out of the scene export format... AND... as I was saying... isn't really too hard now on Vue 4 owners to ask them to give you credit and 550 bucks (that's the cost of Pro plus Mover and Ozone which are sort of indispensable to it), and THEN AGAIN, ask them to furtherly pay for the upgrade to the future Esprit version? With all the doubts about it that I described in question one...I mean.... we're artists, not bank holders, you know. At the VERY (and I mean VERY) least, I would expect that the price for upgrade to Esprit for Vue 4 owners that already upgraded to Pro, could be just a symbolic price. More sincerely, I would expect it (at least the first upgrade to Esprit) that it could be free for Vue4-to-Pro upgraders. AND last but not least, I would like a clarifying word BEFORE the release of Pro, on which will be the degree of difference between the Pro and the Esprit version, with an at least generic descritpion of what will be in future Esprit, that the upgraders to Pro will lack in spite of their massive financial effort that you are now asking to them. Thank you in advance for the attention.