(04-27-2021, 04:05 AM)Amann Wrote: [ -> ] (04-26-2021, 07:13 PM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ] (04-26-2021, 02:47 PM)Amann Wrote: [ -> ]Looks like I'm the only one that's pissed that we're not getting a free upgrade despite being early adopters for both OF v1 and OF v2?
OF v2 is barely 4 months old and it's being upgraded.
Why are you pissed? OF v2 hasn't been out long enough for you to even be eligible to request a refund. I'm upgrading it because enough of my CUSTOMERS asked me to, and because there's enough advancement in the tech to do so. And as RTB points out, V2 is a great program, and well worth the price.
I was going to build something completely different, but I was asked by enough customers to build this instead, and they asked me to do so with the understanding that the only free upgrades would be to those who purchased v2 within 30 days of the release of v3.
This build is being done, OF v3 or whatever else it might have been, to allow me to release at least one thing this month that will bring in fresh income. UMS v2 is taking too long, and otherwise there would be nothing at all. The whole point would be negated if I gave free upgrades!
So why are you pissed again?
Disgruntled would be the more appropriate word.
I agree the customers asked you to do it and that it isn't eligible for a refund.
So if it hasn't been given at least 8 months for it's effectiveness to be ascertained...why are Catman and others asking for it to be upgraded already? With newer tech available (fortunately a regular occurrence) is the plan (if you're willing to divulge) to put all the bells and whistles into perfecting OF before replicating into other programs?
CM is asking for it because he knows there's been enough knowledge and technology gained to make it significantly better, and he wants it to work faster and more easily. He sees it working, but it's a slow process and it's being fought by his inner child. CM happens to have an extremely rare personality type that makes for extreme difficulty achieving change in some directions, and especially regarding fear. Most people will not have it nearly as bad as he does, but the goal is for this to work as well and as quickly and easily as possible for even the most difficult cases.
Newer tech is the plan only insomuch as I am developing 6G. Everything I have been doing and working towards since 2012 has been in pursuit of that singular goal. Once we hit 6G, I'm going to stop development (because the goal of 6G is to go as far as humanly possible at that time) and then build out the entire library in 6G. The end goal is to be able to work at my own pace and live on the residual income while I start and raise a family. So it's not going to be constant upgrades forever, and quite frankly, I'm sick of rebuilding the same thing over and over again because of these advancements.
If all I did was to throw FRM 4.9 into the new skeleton script, as I did before, almost all the same "bells and whistles" would be added simply as a result of the difference between 5.75.6G and 5.75.7G. But I made no advancements to the FRM last time, and there are sufficient ideas to do so this time. It shouldn't add a lot of time to the build of OF v3 to add some, if not all, of these new ideas, but the ideas that show well in the models could make a big difference in how well the FRM and the program works. So in this case, it's worth adding some, if not all of those ideas. Most of them - as expected - were not shown to be useful when I ran them through the models.
Quote:I fully understand the need for cashflow though by regularly updating OF you are feeding into peoples FOMO as they will naturally want the latest tech. This will mean they will own multiple copies of the same program with incremental improvements..great for IML but the customer is out of pocket 3 times for a slightly better product (I'm more interested in the results than the claim that this new version is 10 times better than the last but in actuality isn't. I'm not criticising, just highlighting that sometimes it's better to temper expectations). Consequently, no one will want to buy new subs as the possibility of a new version in a short while may be available.
First I would point out to you that I don't recall saying that V2 was 10 times better than v1. I let the programs speak for themselves instead of trying to hype you guys up. Second, the "slightly better": is a matter of opinion. There are people, and more than a few, who would agree with me that V2 of OF is a big step up in power and effectiveness compared to v1. Some people have more fear, though, or more difficult personalities or belief systems to deal with and different points of view and expectations, which will take the same program and make two people perceive it very differently.
Furthermore, I would point out that if you believe that each of these upgrades is just "a slightly better product", then you are welcome to not purchase it. I honestly do not believe that the people who pre-ordered OF v3 are doing it just to support IML. I think they're doing it because they want a better OF experience, and they see that the value of the goal and the value of the previous upgrades has been such that it is genuinely worth their money to do so. When I make these upgrades, I am only willing to if I believe I can deliver that significant increase in value to make the upgrade worthwhile on it's own merits. You may not know it, but I turned down a previous request to upgrade OF from v2 to v3 because of that very thing.
On my quest to achieve 6G, I know what the goal is, but not fully how to get there. I have developed a formula for advancing to the next step based on working out information from the previous steps, and it works. But I don't know when those discoveries will come through or what they will be or how big a difference they will be. I had no idea that 5.75.7G would offer so much more potential than anything that came before it. This is not "planned obsolescence".
Quote:As progress is a continuing journey...you will never be finished. My assumption of you is that you will always want to improve on things to better yourself and your products. Thus, improving other programs (in my opinion) would have been the better choice as it would have allowed for better test results across a variety of subs.
You're right, I will never be finished. My personality type seeks perfection, and that is an infinitely difficult goal to achieve. One lifetime will not be enough. But the fact remains that 6G is and has always been a definite goal beset with definite boundaries, largely because I know that about myself. And when I achieve it, my goal is to focus on starting and raising a family first, and then developing new subliminals and technology second. Will there be a 7G? Maybe. But it won't happen this decade, I'd wager. And the plan is and always has been that when 6G comes out, I build everything in 6G and create a complete library in 6G. Remember, 6G is designed to be "as far as I can push it for a long time", which is why I have been working on this goal since 2012. What's that, 9 years now? I'm pushing now, because I'm tired of developing a new gen of tech and then finding myself discovering new things every time I turn around. Obviously I will never get a complete and consistent library built that way.
6G will be stable and consistent. That's why it's taking so long to get there and so much work.
Quote:This is all a moot point as I won't be purchasing OF v3. But it is food for thought regarding future purchases (specifically UMS v2). Rather than jumping on the initial offering, it may be more prudent to wait a few months (though this can be a spiralling situation if regular updates are implemented at full cost).
Regular updates only happen on unusual circumstances. This happens to be a very tumultuous time when I'm discovering huge amounts of things very quickly, and of course scrambling to implement them so I can achieve 6G faster. The only time I do regular updates is when I have significant improvements in my understanding and abilities that result in customers asking for it and it being a reasonable proposition or if I have made a mistake that needs to be corrected.
You can rest assured that 5.75.7G and up are of such difficulty to build that regular updates will not be very likely anymore, regardless. And in fact I am not going to be building staged subs anymore in this level of technology unless and until I can find a way to do parts of it more quickly and easily, never mind regular updates of those subs. UMS v2 has already been a nightmare, and now everyone expects me to go back and re-do parts of a frozen script to make it match OF v3, which will un-do at least a week's work and, if I do it, delay everything even more.