The thing that gets me, though, is I don't understand how people link those two things together - PH's communication (or lack thereof), and spending one's money.OverneathTheSkyBridg wrote:Like many other users in this thread have stated, the most infuriating thing for me is PH's lack of communication. All the major DAWs are way ahead of PH in many areas, and it would be nice to know that some of those things are being addressed and worked on but all we get are "we can't talk about the future" posts. That attitude towards customers doesn't inspire me to throw anymore money in their direction.
Are you telling me that if PH was giving out daily announcements about every little possible plan they might have, that would be a greater influence on you spending money than what the actual released program does?
I mean, if you just have to have "feature X", and Reason does not have feature X, are you saying you'd buy Reason 9 anyway if someone at PH said, "well, maybe we'll stick that in around Reason 10"?
It doesn't make sense to me, this insistence on making PH's behavior some kind of barometer for business transactions, as if not only do you want a program with all the proper features, but you want PH to be real nice to you. Personally, as long as Reason works right and I like how it runs, I could not care less whether PH says word one between versions. They could be utter jerks who kick puppies around their offices and I'd still buy Reason as long as it worked properly. Function is what attracts my consumer dollars, not some ephemeral "communication".
I've said this before: as much flak as PH gets for the things they do talk about and deliver, how much griping and moaning does everyone think there'd be if PH said, "we're going to try to put feature X in R10" and then for some unexpected reason they had to back out of that promise? I'd be willing to bet that plays a large role in PH not saying much. I wouldn't either, if I thought my inbox would get choked up with the same level of complaining.