MPC Ren/ Touch also.machinesworking wrote:
I know you're trying to be cute here, but I think FXpansion have consistently dropped the ball with their upgrade pricing. At some point in the future some huge discount sale will happen and Geist 2 will literally be cheaper to buy outright than to upgrade from Geist 1. That's exactly what happened to me with GURU to Geist upgrade paths, a few months later it was offered for new users at $75 instead of $99.
In my opinion existing users should be treated better than new customers, not be called terrorists even in jest, and certainly not ever offered a more expensive pricing than new users. I'm not trying to dog on FXpansion here, just pointing out that as an existing customer, someone who has helped keep the lights on, end users of that ilk are not trolls or any other sort of nonsense term, they're the people that can get you new shoes, period.
You blithely shrug off a question about introductory pricing and I use other developers. You explain why you aren't offering or politely decline the request and it's another story.
Personally I'm confused as to why Geist isn't integrating into hardware more? The two biggest competitors for AKAI type drum machines are Push 2 and Maschine, tightly controlled by MIDI hardware. I'm interested, but only slightly because of this lack of hardware support.
Re prices:
If you buy at the start, you can almost always expect at some point it will be cheaper. What you get for that extra outlay, is use and knowledge of that instrument before everyone else.
Ive seen lots of stuff I get early get cheaper; I thought this was normal....?
