+1000!Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: How should it work: any single/plugin I buy, be it from IK directly, the Custom Shop, or a third party retailer, should place a license in my account that I can transfer should I ever choose to. If I can't get that on Custom Shop purchases, then I simply won't make any Custom Shop purchases. There's a big difference between an $80 compressor and a $10 amp sim IMO, the two shouldn't be treated equally.
Good products? Yes. Future-proofing revenue stream? Yes. Good for us? Not so much.
The Custom Shop is convenient. By biding my time and waiting for sales, using Jam Points, etc., I was able to collect most nearly all of the classic Fender amps through Custom Shop. I like em'. I use em'. I honestly don't think I'd ever want to sell them, but if I *did want to*, I can't. I like CSR and the T-RackS stuff, but if I did want to resell the CS version of White 2A that I just bought yesterday, I know that I can't.
Like I said in my OP, you can no longer resell individual plugins; only the "full load". If you buy a CS product, you can NEVER resell it unless you purchased it at full tilt price, without any upgrade options muddying up the waters. For example, if you bought any single [Pre CS]T-RackS plugin, that WAS NOT part of a Group Buy, etc., you could resell it (albeit, the transfer fees made reselling difficult). Not so anymore. The single plugins are only available via Custom Shop, and you don't get a personal serial number registered in your user account. Not cool.
This whole racket of selling fewer credits for the same money, sucks. "Tricksy, false". It used to be, as little as 1 month ago, that $40 bought 45 credits, $60 bought 70 credits, etc.. Now, post "Group Buy/T-RackS CS", the credit packs remain at $20, $40, and so forth, but you don't get the better deal; you get 40 credits for $40. Lower cost credits don't kick in unless you spend the much bigger bucks. Even at that, it's far less than it used to be.
