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Re: New Licensing
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At the end of 2015 Avid will want to bring everyone up to the same level then too. Logic says they will do as they have done before, and offer an incentive to Pro Tools 11 users that are not signed up. The more people that have held off, the more incentive Avid will have to discount.
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#1782
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If Avid could get a fully functioning and bug free version by the end of 2015, I would sign up for the "support plan" for that reason alone.
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#1783
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Yes, that's what I was referring to. Quote:
Unfortunately, in a self-selecting poll, people say all kinds of things. Sometimes they haven't thought things through, sometimes they aren't really sure what they might do, sometimes they're just PO'd at a company, sometimes they just lie. Unfortunately, some folks think that a multi-million dollar company is going to turn on a dime based on the results of a poll such as this. While the folks who read/subscribe to Pro Tools Expert are a cut above what you might find on the DUC or elsewhere, they too are humans, with the same foibles all humans suffer from. So, what people actually do may differ greatly from what they say they will do. So, while a self-selecting poll can sometimes be very useful, you can't treat the results as absolutes. And for this type of poll, 1,500 responses is probably not a representative sample. So, a useful poll, but one that must be looked at very carefully...
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#1784
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Except, there won't be "more incentive" for Avid, it will still be zero. If you want to go past PT 11, you will buy a service contract. If you won't buy a service contract, you're not really a valuable customer to Avid. It's that simple...
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X Note that all opinions, observations, whatever, in this post are mine, unless I'm being mean or am wrong, in which case it's somebody else's fault. I do not work for Avid (their loss)...my only relationship with Avid is that of a customer (when I'm not too poor to buy stuff, like now)...and that hot administrative assistant...that's more of a "thing" than a "relationship" (that should keep them guessing for a while...) Just rockin'...what more is there? Bill in Pittsburgh |
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SOOOOO, perhaps when the next feature release upgrade is available, we will have the opportunity to buy into the maintenance contract at that time (probably for a limited amount of time) and get the latest new feature release upgrade super fantastic stuff, triggering our yearly "dues" to Avid at that time. Likely as not there won't be another feature release upgrade for some time after that, putting us all back on the same level again. Not so sure that the enthusiast part is completely dead though. But am pretty certain that casual users will fall by the wayside. Serious or obsessional enthusiasts can turn out to be pro users, even if only a part time business, like mine is at the moment, but growing. As a one man shop in the middle of the cornfields, I can see some of the advantages in the online collaboration. Most of my work is collaboration, and integrating that could be nice, but not a show stopper. But that is based solely on MY opinion, experience with other collaborators, and end use. As I said earlier, I reckon the proof to be in the pudding.
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I really wish they had included a $50 monthly plan for HD. It would still be $600/year, but much easier to pay by people on very tight budgets like myself.
If that was the case, I'd be surrendering my PT10+CPTK already. But right now I'm waiting (and saving) in the hope that I'll still see the CPTK to HD offer by the end of 2015.
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this one rings true for me. At $600 a year - even serious enthusiasts (+ part time money makers) can probably swing it and are likely too far invested to back out.
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Re: New Licensing
I suspect they benefit a great deal more from no longer having many people on 10 and earlier because it's not the same program as 11.
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I will add that 200 USD is about $17 a month. Even the most novice Vanilla enthusiast spends that on junk food in a week. This subscription is potentially great for the entire PT customer base. |
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Re: New Licensing
I'm seeing this at the bottom in the Avid Store for the PT10+CPTK to PT11HD upgrade:
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Thanks in advance!
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