TS7 pricing 2004-12-18 - By Norm Fortier
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Ron, I believe Roman has addressed this with promise to honor proTeam
upgrade to trueSpace7. In the proTeam forums,
" I want to reassure everyone who purchased proTeam with our promise of a
free upgrade to the next major release after trueSpace6.6 that we will honor
it even if you let your current subscription lapse. That works out as
proTeam renewals and new membership since September2003."
This is very indicative of how Roman has always treated trueSpace users. I
can imagine no other Captain for the Starship Caligari.
You are well in that timeframe Ron. The only real downside I see, would
entail letting proTeam lapse, in which case it becomes more expensive to
become a proTeam member again (you would pay full proTeam membership price,
vs. the discounted price for renewal). Either way, I am confident you will
be blown away with trueSpace7.
I could say, from an insider's standpoint, it would be good to continue with
proTeam. I bet even now, moving up to proTeam having trueSpace6.6 already,
would give you a year of proTeam plus free upgrade to trueSpace7. For the
thrifty consumer, this may be worth contemplating. I am not sure of what the
price of upgrade to trueSpace7 will be, but I can deduct a good guess from
the price of proTeam, to give me a net price for that year of proTeam. Once
the release of trueSpace7 happens, we have a whole new ball-game for proTeam
pricing; you have to upgrade to trueSpace7 first, then purchase current
proTeam. It doesn't take long to realize that is an expensive tangent.
If I could promise you one thing, it would that this next year is going to
be very exciting.
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Norm Fortier
Team Caligari
www.caligari.com
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-- --Original Message-- --
From: Ron Hodges [mailto:rjhodges@(protected)]
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 3:03 AM
To: truespace@(protected)
Subject: Re: [TSML] TS7 pricing
David - are those of us on proTeam going to get the new version as
originally indicated. My membership expires at the end of Dec. I think.
Just wondering/worrying.
Ron Hodges
>
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:25:55 -0500
> From: Dave Angelini <dpangelini@(protected)>
> Subject: Re: TS7 pricing
>
> The more things change, the more they stay the same....
>
> Invariably, each major release of trueSpace prompts this discussion. If
you
> look back to the release of tS4, particularly when Caligari announced that
> the old rPlus renderer was going to be replaced by the more professional
> Lightworks package, there were huge waves of similar concern through the
> TSML. Back then, there were even discussions of splitting tS4 into two
> packages: proSpace aimed and priced for professionals and our standard low
> cost trueSpace. Sound familiar? Well, after much discussion, trueSpace4
> was released at only a slightly higher upgrade price than used when tS3
was
> released and, in time, that price dropped too.
>
> I guess the only answer which I can offer is that Caligari has been in the
> business for 10 years now (is that grey I see Roman's beard?). They know
> their customers, their market demographic and how to best maximize revenue
> in that market (sorry...but this isn't charity).
>
> I honestly don't think they are going to price tS7 so high that they lose
> half their market to Carerra, Real Soft, Hash, etc.
>
> Let's take a breath people.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Angelini
>
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