On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com>wrote:
> If fewer customers pay for support, how much developer time do you think > is going to be put into the product? In other words, by not paying you are > effectively killing the product. Wait, what? This is a chicken before the egg scenario. Poor development precedes fewer paying customers almost all of the time. There's no possible way in hell the end user can be blamed for anything here. It's my companies money and my choice to decide where our money is spent and when there are better options they will be taken. The only people to blame for dropped subscriptions are AD. Asking me to front cash for speculative development is insane especially given AD's track record over the last few releases. It's on them to properly invest money into r'n'd and proper development. If they aren't getting the cash flow from the customer then they need to ante up and get them interested again with a kick ass major revision. This isn't kickstarter and AD isn't a small up and coming developer that needs an influx of cash to get going. There are several existing and speculative products on the market right now that are grasping for my attention and AD does not have a single one of them. I bear zero ill will towards Softimage or AD, I just make business decisions based on future trends and where I think a package will be in 3-5 years.
