Hi:
My final comment is, Revolution was marketed to me as "MetaCard Lite",
geared toward the casual hobbyist and HyperCarder. That means it's not
supposed to cost $500 each and every year ($169 every 4 months), and not
$1000 or more to start out.
I don't actually care that much what it costs, I object to the deceitful
marketing tactics. I can see a $50 max on a 4 month upgrade for a buggy
product that was sold to me as a hobbyist tool. I don't make any money with
Revolution, I just mess around with it, trying to avoid the bugs which I'm
going to have to pay so dearly to fix.
If I were a real developer instead of a programming-challenged dabbler, I'd
gladly pay for the pro package. I'd be using the product to make money, and
it seems reasonably priced for such. But all this talk of "hobbyists" and
"low-cost alternatives" and "for HyperCarders" and "standard editions" is
just plain dishonest, like not mentioning what their plans for their
way-non-standard upgrade pricing policies were up front, and I don't like
this company's selling tactics. They're hell-bent on getting that $1000 a
year whatever way they can, even if it means non-fact-based marketing
strategies. I would never have bought in if I knew that the upgrade pricing
was going to be so non-standard and onerous. They could have told me that
beforehand, but chose not to. Gee, I wonder why?
I want them to advertise their "standard edition" upgrade policy plans on
their website, so that people know what they're getting into. It's 50% of
the original cost, every 4 months, until the end of time, right?
That's my opinion as a paying customer, like it or not. A lot of you serious
developer adults seem to think I'm not entitled to this opinion. That makes
you right and perfect, I suppose. But then, I'm sure you would agree that
developers always are.
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