Well unless this is put right before the deadline date, there is no way I will want to upgrade. I spend a lot of time correcting sib's unintelligent note spelling. I certainly don't need all my work to be undone whenever I do a reset.
Oh dear. This is really not good news. You will understand why, Joe.
We're in the second half of April already.
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Chris Crawley (composer and horn-player) using Sibelius 7.1.3, NotePerformer, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Intel Core i7 3.30GHz, 64GB RAM, DacMagic 100
This brings the reality of the new pricing strongly into focus. The question, at the cut-off date, will not be "Do I want to buy the version currently on offer?". It will be "Do I want to stay on board?".
If a fix for this particular bug doesn't arrive in time (or if a fix is rushed out without proper testing and other things break - and remember the team will be under considerable pressure to produce an impressive version for the cutoff date) Avid will in all honesty have to advise us "Pay up, but don't install the latest version yet".
Even with bi-yearly updates, experienced developers and a beta-testing program, this sort of thing happened occasionally. Then we could hold back until a corrected version arrived. We still can - but now we have to pay up-front. Not actually a huge practical difference. But a big emotional one.
> Joe, that's good news and I'm sure everyone appreciates your attendance to this Forum and how quickly you addressed the issue in "Reset Design".
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> Thank you,
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but was NOT released as a fix to users, but was delayed until today, May 5 to fatten up the Sib 8.3 release which may be the last release before the subscription deadline. It is felt it should have already been released as an 8.2.1 fix, and this delaying of fixes of bugs of the present release and using them as features of the next release shows a HUGE part of whats wrong with this subscription plan.
These "delaying tactics" can wreak havoc with anyone whose subscription ends, and they dont renew, and the bug was delivered while they still were on subscription.
This really doesnt seem fair.
YMMV.
Thanks Bob
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Bob Morabito
Sib 5.2.5, 6.2, 7.1.3. 7.5.1
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