Just got an email from the VP of marketing:
Dear Customer,I’m personally writing to you in order to inform you about an important policy change and how this will impact you. From July 1, 2013, Quark Software will only support upgrading from one previous version of QuarkXPress to the current version.
Impact for QuarkXPress 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 users By now you will have seen many communications around the One Price Promotion, which enables you to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 from ANY previous version. Currently you also get QuarkXPress 10 for free when you upgrade. It is almost unprecedented in the industry to provide an upgrade path from such legacy versions of a software product. We have provided this upgrade path for the last 2 upgrade cycles and this will be the last time. The promotion is coming to end on June 30, 2013. As per the above, from July 1, 2013, your licenses will no longer be eligible to be upgraded to QuarkXPress 9 or 10.
Dude -- Adobe is *ripe* for the picking yet you guys still cant resist the chance to shoot yourself in the foot? You guys should be dropping the hammer on Adobe right now. uhg. Just TODAY Adobe said its "rethinking" is subscription pricing. And what does Quark do? Further alienate its already dwindling user base.
Wheres the Adobe cross grade offer? Wheres the funny "subscriptions are for __________" ad campaigns?
Instead people say this:
"We are determined to blow this opportunity to offer a truly competitive alternative to disgruntled users of InDesign."
"We have determined that since Adobe hates you, we have to hate you too. You're all obviously stupid people with too much money. We want it."
Not sure whats going on over at the management, but some serious soul searching is in order. You guys have have been waiting *years* for the opportunity to somehow get back the giant market share you lost when ID CS2 came out. From this email it looks like you have already decided that its over and just are content to sit back and die a slow death.
I welcome anything to prove me different.
Dear Customer,I’m personally writing to you in order to inform you about an important policy change and how this will impact you. From July 1, 2013, Quark Software will only support upgrading from one previous version of QuarkXPress to the current version.
Impact for QuarkXPress 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 users By now you will have seen many communications around the One Price Promotion, which enables you to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 from ANY previous version. Currently you also get QuarkXPress 10 for free when you upgrade. It is almost unprecedented in the industry to provide an upgrade path from such legacy versions of a software product. We have provided this upgrade path for the last 2 upgrade cycles and this will be the last time. The promotion is coming to end on June 30, 2013. As per the above, from July 1, 2013, your licenses will no longer be eligible to be upgraded to QuarkXPress 9 or 10.
Dude -- Adobe is *ripe* for the picking yet you guys still cant resist the chance to shoot yourself in the foot? You guys should be dropping the hammer on Adobe right now. uhg. Just TODAY Adobe said its "rethinking" is subscription pricing. And what does Quark do? Further alienate its already dwindling user base.
Wheres the Adobe cross grade offer? Wheres the funny "subscriptions are for __________" ad campaigns?
Instead people say this:
"We are determined to blow this opportunity to offer a truly competitive alternative to disgruntled users of InDesign."
"We have determined that since Adobe hates you, we have to hate you too. You're all obviously stupid people with too much money. We want it."
Not sure whats going on over at the management, but some serious soul searching is in order. You guys have have been waiting *years* for the opportunity to somehow get back the giant market share you lost when ID CS2 came out. From this email it looks like you have already decided that its over and just are content to sit back and die a slow death.
I welcome anything to prove me different.