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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
Well I was excited by the idea of PT10, but I'm just incredulous at the pricing too.
The economies around the world are unstable and the overall environment is just too soft for Avid to be pushing for so much money with so many caveats on instant usability (as someone who uses an HD5). Because of DUC traffic on problems with PT 8 and 9 I stayed out of those upgrades; happily using 7 because I found it rock solid. Now, because of choosing reliability over new features I am apparently being asked to pay $1000+ more, just for staying on 7x. Nice. I do find the business model here very disturbing; like Avid management are in a bubble somewhere. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. Probably let the dust settle and look at Steinberg options meanwhile. I started using ProTools as my main workhorse in 1999; there is clearly a lot of goodwill slipping through the cracks this week. I hope this pricing structure gets a makeover, quickly. |
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
"The economies around the world are unstable and the overall environment is just too soft for Avid to be pushing for so much money with so many caveats on instant usability (as someone who uses an HD5)."
I've heard this argument from my union producers studios etc etc etc... This argument is complete fing bull s@#t from them, and the same applies to you. stop with this Bulls@%t!!!!! If your good you get work and plenty of it Period. If your not getting work your not fooling anybody except yourself - find new work!!!!!! this argument can be used by avid as why they have to increase their pricing - stock is down blah blah blah either way this argument stinks |
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
The $1k upgrade is just too high for me to want to do it.
I do record production/recording/mixing and post audio composing/mixing - the features in 10 are good (clip based gain! disk cache!) and I *might* have done the upgrade at this price if it was a 64 bit upgrade and I would stop getting the damned "PT is out of memory" errors every time I use East West or Spectrasonics products in a cue. As it is, no way. Not happening. I would have held my nose at $499 and done it. Fix the pricing and I'm in. And that's for me going 9 -> 10. The other upgrade prices (from 7 and 8) are just a slap in the user's face. Especially the ridiculous pricing on the CPTK just to unlock features that every other native daw has already (disk cache excepted). It should be the same price as HD software. |
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
Not sure where you got your info, but avid is even higher today than it was yesterday by 30 cent. Yesterday it closed at 7.21$ today it did at 7.51. The lowest in 52 weeks was 7.01$
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
Perhaps we should band together as a group and determine a price we would be willing to pay for a PT 10hd software only upgrade...
I also feel this is the most unfair part of the pricing structure I have a tdm system hd 3. The protool 9hd upgrade really offered very little for hd users so I like many others I passed on that upgrade One month ago I bought an additional native system hd native With PT 9 So now in order to upgrade to PT 10hd I have a min of $ 1000 after only one month... Not so cool So what if we offered Avid a fair price that a large group of us would willing to pay for the upgrade scaled from PT 7 A group buy like many other companies do... If we could get a large enough group to send names and a commitment to upgrade we could at least engage avid in a negotiation... And if not then i think that will indeed know where we stand as customers who have spent considerable dollars over the years What do you guys think? Cheers SP
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
I think the price is fair give me more tracks and raise the price even more!
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
I think he was referring to the European markets
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Re: Protools 10HD upgrade to from 9 is 999.99 ..... WHY
You have an odd definition of fair! If you buy a coffee in the morning and it's 200% more expensive than it was the day before, are you going to pay and drink up, or say something along the lines of, "why the **** has this coffee gone up 200%?"
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