To renew or not to renew... that is the question! WC Subcription, is it worth it?
Thursday, April 15, 2004 by kith | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I'm not sure, what do you think?
SDC was nice enough to remind me that my WC Subscription is up in 29 days.... Wow what a quick two years, time flies when you are having fun. Well do I break out the credit card and send Frogboy another $20 dollars? This is a tough one. Well let's take a look at what you get for your money.
1) Wincustomize Browser - Well this thing is almost dead, SDC does it all now. Put it out of it's misery please... The tray app is a neat idea but I got enough stuff in my tray as it is and XP keeps hiding it all anyway... -)
2) Premium suites - Well two were offered for subscribers. You can judge for yourself how "premium" they really are. I found them to be less than satisfactory. I have seen some "premium" suites on other sites and drooled, you know which ones....
3) 5,000 Free text Impressions - Umm, is it me or is this thing the Phoenix. Keeps dying and rising from the ashes. I can't for the life of me imagine how I would use a text banner, but I tried it out about a year ago. I haven't heard anything about it since, but the website is still up if you want to have a look. Someone use this please...
http://www.textbanners.net/
4) Extra Wincustomize Features - OK this one really has me confused. Were any of these things ever implemented / offered? Journals, Auto Notifications, Post tracking (maybe?), personal domain. It's been TWO YEARS, if you are not going to offer this stuff just update the subscription page, come on.
5) Other Goodies - This one is my favorite! Why this is not part of Number 4 above I'm not sure because only skincast is mentioned. Isn't Skincast part of Windowblinds?
6) Unlimited downloads - Hey this is a big one. But if you buy Stardock software or get promoted here this is automatic. I just checked my profile and I am slightly over the 5MB limit for free users. So far I have downloaded 1.4GB worth of skins. That's a lot of skins.
Well you might think there is no way I would renew my subscription. Why should I.... Why would I... where is the payoff? I really hope that Wincustomize will address this as a lot of the longtime users will need to make this decision fairly soon.
Well I got the card out, the money is coming. I think that helping WC out for the price of a couple of pizzas is well worth it for another two years. Irregardless of everything else I like this place and want to do my part to make sure it can be here tomorrow. I hope you make the same choice....
SDC was nice enough to remind me that my WC Subscription is up in 29 days.... Wow what a quick two years, time flies when you are having fun. Well do I break out the credit card and send Frogboy another $20 dollars? This is a tough one. Well let's take a look at what you get for your money.
1) Wincustomize Browser - Well this thing is almost dead, SDC does it all now. Put it out of it's misery please... The tray app is a neat idea but I got enough stuff in my tray as it is and XP keeps hiding it all anyway... -)
2) Premium suites - Well two were offered for subscribers. You can judge for yourself how "premium" they really are. I found them to be less than satisfactory. I have seen some "premium" suites on other sites and drooled, you know which ones....
3) 5,000 Free text Impressions - Umm, is it me or is this thing the Phoenix. Keeps dying and rising from the ashes. I can't for the life of me imagine how I would use a text banner, but I tried it out about a year ago. I haven't heard anything about it since, but the website is still up if you want to have a look. Someone use this please...
http://www.textbanners.net/
4) Extra Wincustomize Features - OK this one really has me confused. Were any of these things ever implemented / offered? Journals, Auto Notifications, Post tracking (maybe?), personal domain. It's been TWO YEARS, if you are not going to offer this stuff just update the subscription page, come on.
5) Other Goodies - This one is my favorite! Why this is not part of Number 4 above I'm not sure because only skincast is mentioned. Isn't Skincast part of Windowblinds?
6) Unlimited downloads - Hey this is a big one. But if you buy Stardock software or get promoted here this is automatic. I just checked my profile and I am slightly over the 5MB limit for free users. So far I have downloaded 1.4GB worth of skins. That's a lot of skins.
Well you might think there is no way I would renew my subscription. Why should I.... Why would I... where is the payoff? I really hope that Wincustomize will address this as a lot of the longtime users will need to make this decision fairly soon.
Well I got the card out, the money is coming. I think that helping WC out for the price of a couple of pizzas is well worth it for another two years. Irregardless of everything else I like this place and want to do my part to make sure it can be here tomorrow. I hope you make the same choice....
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Reply #21 Saturday, April 17, 2004 3:41 AM