Waiting for "something worth upgrading for" means taking advantage of the company's R&D. That costs money.
No one.Who should pay?
I like how on VB you can enable email addresses that can access the vb.org mods. As some of your other admins might need to have access too. Plus you continue to keep getting access even when your updates run out. With this system, it is totally limited to only the 1 active account, unless you share that account with your other admins (which would be really bad/wrong). And then you lose access to all updates from the free 3rd party mods.
If an active license is required to use the Mods forum, then I predict that XenForo.com will not be where the lion's share of mods are posted. Instead they'll be posted on a dozen third-party sites and we'll have an even more disconnected community than vB.org.
I at first said that I'm not affected too. But now that I think about it...even those who pay for current licensing will be affected. If the mods/styles are not opened up to ALL licensees (regardless if they have paid their fees or not), then it will create a disunited modding/styling community. You and I and every other current licensee will have to go to 3rd party sites, register, remember where we got said mods, post in different forums/communities for support, etc...I have no problem with a reactivation fee, it's fine as far as I am concerned.
I do concur with others though, those whose licenses fall inactive should still have access to modifications. But...it isn't a deal breaker for me, simply because I will always keep my license active. I knew the terms when I bought it.
My thoughts, having 21 months to decide if you want to keep your license active is more than enough time.
You have 12+9 months from the date of renewal.
That is 21 months.
You can add several forum users, to a license. In this way, several people you trust can access the restricted areas.I like how on VB you can enable email addresses that can access the vb.org mods. As some of your other admins might need to have access too. Plus you continue to keep getting access even when your updates run out. With this system, it is totally limited to only the 1 active account, unless you share that account with your other admins (which would be really bad/wrong). And then you lose access to all updates from the free 3rd party mods.
From a business point of view this might entice more people to keep upgrading. But overall it will give many people a bad taste in their mouth and word of mouth will go right down.
LOVE the news altho I've never been in a position to let a license lapse unless I meant it to but I could understand the discussion.Excellent news Ashley.
That being the case, I can't see any further reason for complaint with regards to XenForo's pricing structure.
Additionally, anyone who owns a license will have full access to all the forums, including resources, mods and add-ons, no matter whether they have an "active" license or not.
This will please all license holders and make XenForo.com the place to go for mods which will in turn help to grow the community even more.
I think it would be useful to leave it open for now just to see the response to the news.So does this now mean this thread can be closed?
I think it would be useful to leave it open for now just to see the response to the news.
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