Chipp
I don't trust E-On anymore. They are bungling this badly, please go look at forums from here, to DAZ, to CG talk and other places...it's got  a big thumbs down how they have handled this.
As said, it's not always the reality that is important, but how things are seen to be done, like in politics, ya know?
I don''t mean "lies and spin" those are exactly what get folk angry and are most unforgivable.

I may support things, but when they are doing something seriously wrong,  I'll jump on them like anything or anyone else that's messed up.
It is stupid, dishonourable and against the long term surviviability of Vue, for E-On to have done this.

In a time of economic fear and trouble, when other apps give free upgrades...and then to have an upgrade that if you decide ot pay extra for it...you get no re-imbursment of vue8 purchase, AND Vue7 has been only out for 5 months or so and this paid for update comes out, and we've never had "Pay for" updates before...it leaves a very bad taste.

It seems the industry now regards us as peons to rent their product by the year, and then one day, by the month, the week, the day if they so decide. (See how Newtek and Autodesk seem to be shifting their outlooks...)
Corporate greed & stupidity destroyed our economies, the lesson has obviously not been learned in this arena, or that we shouldn't tolerate it at all, anywhere, ever again.

Rome did not fall because of one specific act, but a serious of stupid crap and external events.
I do not want to find Vue dead in the water one day like I had to go through with Bryce, because corporate suits have lost the plot, again....
Go look ou there, folk are pissed about this, they are fed up with bugs, they are fed up with a Byzantine stupid price/product list for Vue.

Vue is a good app, it's designers come up with amazing things, that is not the issue. The issue is that Vue is being badly handled. E-On needs to get it's finger out, and TALK to us customers and treat us as valued customers, not peons.
It's obvious what needs to be done, but corporates often, like politics, back themselves into a corner they refuse to get out of before the walls fall on top of 'em. I've seen it recently in another arena I care about.
Arrogance and failing to listen cost a company a HUGE amount of respect and tolerance from customers, and a lot of money. It was their attitude and how things were done that caused this, not that their product was bad.

Alex,
lol, true, but, off topic, that almost couldn't happen nowadays, look at how gutless and vapid the media have become :(

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