xplorer2 v2.0

kunkel321 · Post by **kunkel321** » 2011 Jul 31, 01:51

Tuxman wrote:If I bought the "full-featured lifetime license", I would expect to get the full-featured edition for a lifetime.

Right... For the lifetime of the full-featured version. (But not the super-featured version!) hee hee

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Jul 31, 02:07

Fuller than full?

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Jul 31, 05:08

If it's called something else, then it is a different product even if the brand stays the same.

ozzii · Post by **ozzii** » 2011 Jul 31, 07:22

Tuxman wrote:Fuller than full?

Not "fuller than full" but fuller than x² pro

When you bought a licence for windows 7 "home basic" you really expect to have the right to have the "ultimate" version :?:

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Jul 31, 12:56

No, because, when I buy Windows "Home Basic", I know that it is not the "full edition".

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Jul 31, 17:47

Tuxman wrote:No, because, when I buy Windows "Home Basic", I know that it is not the "full edition".

Regardless of ozzii's example, your full-featured lifetime license limits to a specific product. If later on the developer creates a new product (which isn't labeled as an update and most probably is called differently) that is based on an already existing one (for which you have full-featured lifetime license), you're not entitled to get a free license.

While legally you can't do anything about it, you may get pissed and have a read on cracking software, then decide to act accordingly :D

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Jul 31, 17:49

IneedHelp wrote:you may get pissed

Thank you, good sir.

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Jul 31, 17:52

Tuxman wrote:
IneedHelp wrote:you may get pissed
Thank you, good sir. :)

Of course, that is pissed off :D

Tuxman · Post by **Tuxman** » 2011 Jul 31, 17:56

Yep, it is. :twisted:

kunkel321 · Post by **kunkel321** » 2011 Jul 31, 18:03

Frankly I do get annoyed when developers rename their products like that... MacroExpress became MacroExpress Pro. DrawPlus became DrawPlus X. Like what's the point? Is it just so you can charge more? Don't impress me with the name, impress me with the features and improvements in the software.

Presumably any plans to go from x2 to x2 pro super is just a farce. But incase it's not... I'd like to recommend calling it "xplorer2-pro-xtra-super-special-mega-ultra-heavy-duty-like-a-boss-xtreme."

EDIT: And yes, it is always better to get pissed-off, than pissed-on

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Jul 31, 18:23

kunkel321 wrote:Like what's the point?

Circumventing reasonable thinking. Most people feel like if they don't have the Enterprise version, they're missing something, even if it is just a dozen of unneeded features.

It works on me too :D

kunkel321 wrote:EDIT: And yes, it is always better to get pissed-off, than pissed-on

I needed to make sure because you never know with Germans, and I know that because I have more German friends than I'd want D:

bmolony · Post by **bmolony** » 2011 Jul 31, 19:07

With all this back and forth about whether there should be a "super" version or not, I am afraid I need to throw in my own two cents worth which may be a bit of a damper.

I just installed the new 2.0.0.0 Pro version. I even had to pay the $19.95 upgrade price. Seems that I originally purchased the Pro version just a couple of weeks over 1 year ago so I did not get the free upgrade.

Now that I have it, I find that absolutely NONE of the suggestions I made on this thread were incorporated into it. At least if there were, I can't find them. Thus, I paid for getting absolutely nothing that I wanted. It is no better than the version 1... that I already had.

Now just maybe, my suggestions were not particularly worthy of consideration??? Perhaps, the suggestions others made were much more "important" than mine??? I don't know.

But the bottom line is that I am NOT happy for having to pay for something that does not do me a bit better than the "old" version. And I would certainly NOT consider moving to some "super" version in hopes that maybe that would have what I wanted in it.

IneedHelp · Post by **IneedHelp** » 2011 Jul 31, 19:13

bmolony, from x2 customer to x2 customer, from user to user: why the hell did you pay for the upgrade before checking first if it has the extras you need (or the ones you asked for) ?

kunkel321 · Post by **kunkel321** » 2011 Jul 31, 19:20

RE: Integration of feature requests...

Remember also that THIS particular thread "xplorer2 2.0," was started by Nikos WHEN he released v2.0. So naturally, none of the recommendations in this thread would be in v2.0. (Something about law of cause and effect.)

bmolony · Post by **bmolony** » 2011 Jul 31, 19:25

Well it should be obvious (at least it is to me now), that I put too much trust in all the openness of this thread. I really believed that all of the suggestions being made were indeed getting serious consideration. And I felt mine were too. Yet, the bottom line is that what I finally ended up with was far below my expectations.

Now I am certainly not saying there were not quite a few improvements in the newest version. Certainly the ability to move around or even detach various parts of the interface into free floating windows is a really fancy extra. But none of those are really particularly helpful to me. I would have preferred something a little less fancy and more true usefulness and I did not get that.

Maybe eventually, I will find more things that will be helpful but at this time, none of the changes seem particularly helpful to me.