Grem
sylent
I'm not sure where I saw it at, but somewhere around here, lol, it says they have chosen some users randomly to get it early.
Why would they do that?
[edit] thanks for the answer sylent. I am just thinking out loud. Wondering what reason would they have to offer it to some "randomly" and not "all" loyal customers?
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No problem Grem!
As a marketing guy myself I could only venture to speak from my own experience and line of thinking.
How would you choose which customers are "loyal" users out of tons, someone would argue because they used it every weekend for 10 years they are, while another would say I use it every hour of every day for 5 years so I am.
Forum use stats wouldn't be so good, because post amount may mean one guy isn't as tech savvy as the next guy, when neither may not use the software that often or in depth.
So why do it at all?
IMO it would be great for marketing "chatter", with such a big change in the sales format... helps ease minds of some that are on the fence about the jump.
But it would be just as important to do more "beta" testing in real-world environments, with a random slice of users, their differing expectations, needs, type of usage, and gear etc.
Their excitement and/or unbiased feedback is different from anyone on the dev and sales side, and having a wide range of usage and expectations of consumers is priceless in most cases.
In either case, random is the best way.
That's just my two brain-cells rubbing together to create an opinion. lol