Problems with Steinberg support

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thejonsolo wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:54 am Patience truly is a virtue.
No. If the customers don't react to bad or nonexisting or late support, they (not limited to Steinberg) won't change anything. But the opposite holds too, you have to tell others so that the companies profit from good support.

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I called them today and my case was fixed immediately :) Thanks!
BUT.... when we talk about support standards it is SOOOO BAAAAD that I will never ever purchase from them. Really. Never.

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Wait, Steinberg has support?

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raysaul wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:02 pm Wait, Steinberg has support?
Yes, if you live in one of the approved countries.

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thecontrolcentre wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:37 pm GIYF ;)
Had to look that one up. I thought it's "Google It, You F**k". Close enough ;) :D
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zoidkirb wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 4:23 am
raysaul wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:02 pm Wait, Steinberg has support?
Yes, if you live in one of the approved countries.
From my experience there's no chance to get to official support in Poland. You have to go through branch of Yamaha Germany first and they don't even liste their e-mail or website :dog:

God bless for Google, YT and forums like KvR :clap: :)
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matrixplan wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:19 pm Anyone had problems with Steinberg support? I wait almost 3 weeks for answer, and can't use my purchased software. Nothing. Silence. I was hoping that thi is high quality developer so they should somehow answer :evil:
It has been like this for years. Steinberg customer support is one of the worst aspects of using their products, and the company officially sends users to the steinberg community forums for support while they wait. On the forums, brand managers will argue and fight with you for discussing known flaws, always trying to obfuscate the problems and blame it on a galaxy of other vendors.

Oh, and how do you like that new forum system?? Lol imo it's one of the worst forums I've ever seen, and it's filled with spam posts that steinberg's mods seem unable to deal with. I made a post about how the spam is getting through to their board, exposing users to random spam links for hours at a time before someone deletes them. They moderated my post and said "you should watch your tone" to me, despite not having violated any forum rules. I'm pretty sick of steinberg support frankly.

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antic604 wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:16 pm
zoidkirb wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 4:23 am
raysaul wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:02 pm Wait, Steinberg has support?
Yes, if you live in one of the approved countries.
From my experience there's no chance to get to official support in Poland. You have to go through branch of Yamaha Germany first and they don't even liste their e-mail or website :dog:

God bless for Google, YT and forums like KvR :clap: :)
Same here in Australia. I came to the conclusion years ago that the majority of reasons to contact support are either: solvable through googling/ forum-ing, or bug that may or may not be fixed in a future update.

I did just check and notice that the Yamaha portal in Australia seems to have improved a lot recently and seems like they may be taking Steinberg customers more seriously.

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antic604 wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 3:16 pm
zoidkirb wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 4:23 am
raysaul wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 1:02 pm Wait, Steinberg has support?
Yes, if you live in one of the approved countries.
From my experience there's no chance to get to official support in Poland. You have to go through branch of Yamaha Germany first and they don't even liste their e-mail or website :dog:

God bless for Google, YT and forums like KvR :clap: :)
Hmm... what happens when you have a problem with the software?

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At least you have support. I don't. I live in Israel, and Cubase is very popular here, but still, they don't give any support in my country. They sent me many times to the reseller. The reseller is a sell guy, not a developer :dog: It's not only the support.. their whole license thing is very outdated, with lots of bugs and problems on my mac.. Had to reinstall my mac one time. Even their forum is dead and feels like something from the '90s. They have good products but a very old school mentality and not in a good way. Slate Digital for example is a company with a great support, also Rob Papen.

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raiderpdog wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:02 am So far for me, they are the worst with the non-help. Won't buy anything else from them.
Yes, I had it with them since 3 years now.
A Couple of tickets no response in 2 months, then a mail saying if it didn't resolve itself post a new ticket.
- I mean what is that?
- they cancel it basically...

That is more like abuse, than support.... Waves are the best out there, no exception always getting a response in 4 hours or so. Always follow through until solved.

And I'm not the one cluttering my account with tickets.

There was one guy at Steinberg forum that went "please Steinberg respond" and nothing happend for a year.

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Hands down Steinberg have the worst support in the music business.
Cannot believe Yamaha tolerate such lazy half assed tech support.

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chk071 wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:55 pm Hmm... what happens when you have a problem with the software?
Not sure I follow. I guess it depends on who you are. If you're Hanz Zimmer or Junkie XL, they'll fly a helicopter over with a team of engineers. For you & I they'll probably leave us hanging :)
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That's what I mean... if you have a problem with your hundreds of € worth software, you should be able to reach support, wherever you are.

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