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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:47 pm

It's time for our yearly holiday vacation. Zugg Software will be closed until January 5th, so we will mostly not be answering email or forum posts until then.

I wish everybody a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:19 pm

Dear Zugg and Chiara,

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

:)
Very Happy

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Ditto. Have a good one! :-)

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:26 am

Joyous Christmas and Happy New Year, Zugg and Chiara.

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:16 pm

We are back to work and we will be catching up with email and forum posts for the next day or so. Happy New Year to everyone.

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:59 pm

You're early Wink

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:10 pm

Yeah, I got mixed up and thought Jan 5th was supposed to be Monday.

Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:24 pm

Don't tell 'em that. You need to say you we're eager to get back to work for 'em. *lol* Twisted Evil

Wanderer Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 57

ooooh so can we expect the new years letter soon?

*egar to read it*

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:14 am

Yep, the letter should be up within the next couple of days.

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:45 pm

New Year's Letter is up.

Wanderer Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 57

zugg, you got me thinking... i havent bought a cmud product for a long time. and your new years letter made me think that perhaps i should...

now we get 2 years of upgrades..... well i bought my cmud in 2006..... and all updates still work fully on mine. will buy another copy in the next day or so..

just thought you'd like to know that your missing out on sales if people can upgrade forever...

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Two years of upgrades plus minor releases. So you wouldn't be able to upgrade to version 3, but you can get 2.9999 if it ever comes out.

Wanderer Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 57

hmmm i think i bought cmud when it was the very first beta. infact there was a deal i think, but zmud.. get cmud free.

so its probably gone through multiple major versions since then

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:22 pm

GammaRay is correct. The last major version was 2.x and when that came out, nobody had owned CMUD for more than 2 years, so nobody got charged. When the 3.x Public Version is released, that will count as a new Major Version and the upgrade policy will apply: anyone who bought CMUD more than 2 years ago will need to pay the upgrade cost ($14.95) to get the 3.x Public Version.

Also, just in case someone is wondering, all of the 3.x Beta versions have expiration dates, so you can't just keep using the current beta version. Anybody can continue to use the 2.37 Public Version as long as they want.

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:48 pm

Is the CmudPro version a different upgrade cost than the regular version?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Yes, it's different. At worst, you'll be paying full price for a license for CMud pro; at best, you pay for a "double" upgrade--the %x of standard full price to change version numbers, plus %y of pro full price to upgrade from standard to pro.

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:08 pm

Full price, upgrade price pro regular it's all the same, really cheap. I complained about the $15 a month for WOW, then I realized a movie is 2-3 hours long for $8-10. So... if you mud for 9 hours every 2 years cmud is better deal than a movie :).

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:37 pm

Upgrade price is always half of the current full price. So upgrade for CMUD will be $14.99, upgrade for CMUDPro will be $19.95. Upgrade from CMUD to CMUDPro is always $9.95.

Wanderer Joined: 14 Oct 2009 Posts: 57

im sure ill be hated for saying this... but dont you think your prices are too cheap??

I know times are hard and all that. But I pay roughly $24 dollar per month to play my favorite mud. avalon. And its well worth it.

Cmud costs $29.95 for 2 years

mud = $718.80 dollars for 2 years.
cmud = 29.95

Now im not saying that you should charge 700 dolars for cmud. but im sure a 5 dollar price increase wouldnt even be noticed.