Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: CURIOUS LABS RELEASES BETA SERVICE RELEASE 2 FOR POSER 5

kupa opened this issue on Oct 16, 2002 ยท 34 posts


JohnRender posted Thu, 17 October 2002 at 9:15 AM

Since I paid for a "full" version of the program, can I get my money back since I'm using a "beta" version? In fact, if I'm "beta-testing" the program, I would like to be compensated for the time it takes me to find bug not found by the CL "testing" and "Quality Assurance" departments (if they even have those, which I doubt they do). Doesn't anyone else feel that this is wrong. CL is saying, "Here's our software. Please buy the full version for $350.00. Thank you for your purchase. Now, test it for us. If it crashes, you can't get your money back because your opened the seal. We may fix your issues in a future Service Patch (that may or may not need testing of its own). Or we may add new features instead of fixing bugs. Normally, companies pay people to test their software, but since we need the money, we need you to pay us for the "priviledge" of testing Poser 5. Neat, huh?" I guess I missed the fine print on the back of the CD: "By installing this software, you agree to be a tester for us. We don't know if this software will actually work on your machine or not. We think it will, but since we really didn't it test it that well, we honestly don't know. We wanted to test it more, really we did, but we needed the money, so we didn't." I agree with Poppi- Poser 5 is going on the shelves until this bulls---t is over.