So what's your ideal pricing?

[Jackjackdaw]

Reason standard £350

Yearly upgrades that kept everything on point and up to industry standards, £99

RS synth Re.s £59
RS players £29

If they priced it like this I would spend way more money in the Reason shop.

[Tweak]

I don't spend money on buggy software, so price is irrelevant, especially if they try to intimidate me into buying by price gouging.

[Jackjackdaw]

I don't spend money on buggy software, so price is irrelevant, especially if they try to intimidate me into buying by price gouging.

Exactly, I feel like creating a strong product with reasonable pricing is much more likely to create a strong user base than churning out half baked releases and vague promises.

[Heigen5]

Reason+ yearly = 149€, because if there's two years between the major updates they'd already get 298€.

[Ermitage]

A number that reflects the quality of the product relative to the competition.

So around 50€ to upgrade.

[Carpainter]

I don't spend money on buggy software, so price is irrelevant, especially if they try to intimidate me into buying by price gouging.

This x1000. I only paid $80 to upgrade to Reason 12, but I still feel ripped off because it's not as stable as older versions of Reason. At one time, Reason was the most CPU-efficient and stable DAW out there. You could run it on a toaster and it would never crash. Now I'm struggling with a bug that causes Reason to peg my hard drive until I shut it down and restart it.

[Popey]

Personally I would like their to be some sort of tiered pricing dependent on what version you are upgrading from. If however they stick to one price then it would be better to increase it in smaller increments than £70 in one go. So for 12 perhaps £149 upgrade.

It is their product though so they can charge what they like and us users just decide if we see value at their price or not.

[makke]

199$, that is what I spend on 2011 to buy my FL Studio. Free updates 10 years now. You guys should try it out

[earwig83]

RS is a terrible company holding a wonderful product hostage.

[helmutson]

RS is a terrible company holding a wonderful product hostage.

Exactly ! I love Reason, but I do not like the way how they act these days with their customers or as a company ... they seem so disorganized . That new prize tag comes at the wrong time. If the release of R12 had been a complete success, then it wouldn't be a problem, but in my eyes it was a disaster. I have the feeling that somethings going very wrong under the surface ...

[R303]

Different pricing models, because a unit price for software is rather nonsensical.

Now the business is running because they were also revolutionary ideas (RRP, Combinator 2.0), but that doesn't work twice.

[DaveyG]

It does seem like they've launched the least stable and most buggy release then decided to whack up the price. Worse product, higher price. Um, OK. You reap what you sow.

So now my ideal pricing is free, especially for the HD stuff. I was going to wait until the BF sale and see how R12 was looking then but with the price hike that will be a no-go unless the discount is huge. I'm still grumpy about how they offered R10 owners the chance to upgrade to R11 with a free R12 at a discount to even the current upgrade price. So I think R11 may be my last Reason version, and I've been in it since R1 and Rebirth.

[challism]

ideal price?
Pay what you want
Not realistic price, but ideal price

[Carpainter]

RS is a terrible company holding a wonderful product hostage.

This is how a lot of us feel, I think.

First they made something beautiful. Then they saddled it with the most horrific DRM scheme ever devised (god bless the crackers who killed Codemeter). Then they started hiding their best devices behind a paywall (RE). Then they shut down the official forum. Then they sold out to venture capitalists. Now they're trying to force a subscription model down our throats by increasing the cost of Reason.

It feels like they spend more time trying to get one over on us than they do improving their software.

[scotward57]

Ideal pricing? Irrelevant question. It's the timing of a price increase right after giving us a roadmap of future plans and never mentioning it. It's doing this while the product is full of known bugs. Bad decisions by mgt who don't know what they're doing.

[BananaSkins]

Sad to hear many faithful Propellerhead fans increasingly becoming disgruntled with RS on this forum…

Also not being a R12 beta tester myself, can I ask do beta testers receive a discount on the next release they are testing? (If not? - why not?)

Loyalty should work both ways…