They're not really very popular these days - neither here, nor over on Gearslutz or anywhere else for that matter.
I purchased Samplitude X3 Suite back in the day while it was heavily discounted. Then X4 came out and the upgrade fee was outrageous so there was no way I'd have upgraded. I kept looking at X5, X6, X7 and X8 and the hundreds of offers to upgrade they must have sent me over the years and it never seemed worthwhile to me - but fast-forward to BF 2023 and again the whole Suite was so heavily discounted that I finally bit and instead of upgrading ended up purchasing the Suite again. (I wanted to upgrade Sepctralayers anyway during BF.) The product itself meanwhile has become really good by the way - but nobody noticed.
Had they asked a reasonable amount of money for it, I would doubtlessly have upgraded to X4-X8 and they'd have made more money from me that way.
Now I noticed that they advertise Sequoia a lot these days here at KVR. The price: full license ~1800€ and the upgrade ~900€ (which is almost the price of a full Nuendo license) - seriously: what on earth? With prices like this I would think they just don't care and basically want to kill their pro-line of products, but why then waste money on advertising? Is it some clever taxes loophole they make use of? It just doesn't seem to make sense to me.
I purchased Samplitude X3 Suite back in the day while it was heavily discounted. Then X4 came out and the upgrade fee was outrageous so there was no way I'd have upgraded. I kept looking at X5, X6, X7 and X8 and the hundreds of offers to upgrade they must have sent me over the years and it never seemed worthwhile to me - but fast-forward to BF 2023 and again the whole Suite was so heavily discounted that I finally bit and instead of upgrading ended up purchasing the Suite again. (I wanted to upgrade Sepctralayers anyway during BF.) The product itself meanwhile has become really good by the way - but nobody noticed.
Had they asked a reasonable amount of money for it, I would doubtlessly have upgraded to X4-X8 and they'd have made more money from me that way.
Now I noticed that they advertise Sequoia a lot these days here at KVR. The price: full license ~1800€ and the upgrade ~900€ (which is almost the price of a full Nuendo license) - seriously: what on earth? With prices like this I would think they just don't care and basically want to kill their pro-line of products, but why then waste money on advertising? Is it some clever taxes loophole they make use of? It just doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Statistics: Posted by jens — Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:58 pm — Replies 1 — Views 81