I'd really love to see what supposedly, bullet proof software, some of these past software devs (who do so much finger pointing) used to work on?
If anyone feels like they're not getting their money's worth, it's quite simple. Sit out from upgrading for a year. That turns a $150 per year upgrade into a $75 per year upgrade. Now before anyone chimes in with, "Support the company so they can deliver more stability and better features, etc." Whilst it is true of course companies need money. But if more money equalled more quality, stability and features, in the audio application world? Well Ableton would be the most stable, the most enviable, and the clear cut features leading, DAW of all DAWs.
It's not though. None are, really. Just look at all the VS threads on the net! That will tell you all you need to know about that argument.
Feel like a once a year upgrade is more marketing, than value?... Sit out a cycle! Cake's membership is one that doesn't penalise you for doing so. It's not like Steinberg, where if you sat out a few releases, you could find yourself paying the same to upgrade as the full program might cost under the right sale circumstances.
When you get a Cake survey, tell them why you didn't immediately upgrade.
That will do more than whining to fellow users on a user forum.
A lot of the complaints in regards to release quality are very generalised. Sure if you are having a problem, log it. Coming on here and saying over and over that it's bad, might seem all well and good. But if you were walking past a fire, whilst fire fighters were in the process of putting that fire out. Would you stop and stand there pointing and saying, "There's a fire! There's a fire! There's a fire!..."
If you possess deep task specific (and this means program and protocol specific) knowledge of just exactly how Cake could be doing something better? Give them a call and send them your resume! Otherwise, I am reminded of something a previous boss of mine once said:
"Don't just raise your hand and tell us that something is f***ed. If you think something is f***ed? Also tell us exactly how you think we can un-f*** it!"
^^^Funnily enough, this does not mean stating a general, "They should make it more betterer..."
I would write some more but I'm off to a department store, that I bought a T-Shirt from. I'm going to stand at their counter and tell them, "You guys should make better quality shirts," over and over and over, until they do...
