ArtPearl opened this issue on Feb 13, 2009 · 98 posts
spedler posted Sat, 14 February 2009 at 4:44 PM
Quote - Well (my opinion) for an owner of an "Infinite" version it just doesn't make sense anymore to upgrade or sidegrade from the "pro" version to any lower ranked version anymore, even it's being a product with the version 7 !?
That's true in the sense that everyone with v6i who wanted to upgrade at all would surely have wanted to upgrade to v7i. The problem for those who didn't was probably the price - eon set the upgrade price from 6i to 7i very high (IMO) and I also took a good hard look at 7complete before hitting the credit card for 7i. Eon could have simply reduced the cost of the upgrade to 7i on the basis that they would get more sales, but they chose not to. Since that must have been a deliberate decision, you have to ask why... and one possibiity is the intention, over the next couple of versions, to split the product line in two.
Quote - That's why i say, from a certain point of view, the availability of a 7 Complete to 7 Infinite Version doesn't need to be there - but with the sidegrade option from Vue 6 Infinite to Vue 7 Complete E-onsoftware is asking for trouble ...
Yes, agreed - potential trouble ahead. As I said earlier, it'll be interesting to see, since you apparently cannot do a straight upgrade from 7complete to 7infinite now, whether those owners of 7complete will have an upgrade path to 8infinite when it appears. If they can't... standby for a lot of complaints.
Steve