New Modo Info

[c-g]

Special content for registered users I could see, but information on basic upgrades to the core product??? wow.

You are right, how can you stand not having new features for a product you haven’t even purchased?

[Laptop]

Why makes so many excitement about some new secret features here at CgTalk ? You talked about NDA’s…
Other companys are also working on new features…

[MadMax]

It’s great to have all the secret handshakes for the “club” members, but to hide information from those of us taking a close look at this new piece of software seems very much like a stupid business decision.

Special content for registered users I could see, but information on basic upgrades to the core product??? wow.

They could easily have said absolutely nothing until they were ready to make an official announcement.

That they throw a sneak peak to registered users first is hardly a reason for the vitriol in some of the posts or the whining or bitching about it.

It’s a teaser, a sneak peak.

It’s not something the fate of the world hangs on, and it hardly qualifies as a bad business decision.

[mbaldwin]

the bridge tool looks great–as do the other enhancements. I’m looking forward to the update.

soon, I hope!

[Furious]

Vitriol? A bitterly abusive feeling or expression? Where did you see this?

...anyway Brad Peebler's commentin the Luxology forums answers my concersn quite well.

It is a corporate policy that we believe in. We can not in good faith announce a product until we have a solid release date. We have given unofficial nods to the notion that we are working on all aspects of the 3D pipeline. But until we have a very concrete idea of a ship date, we are not announcing or discussing product publicly.

Development dates are a very fluid thing. If we announced a new product and you decide to wait for it, delaying your purchase decision, and then we are late by a few months, then we put you in a bad situation because you based your business decision on our data. We do not want to put our customers in that position. So we err on the side of being modest about our announcements.

I understand this might be frustrating for some people, but it is the right thing to do for our customers and for our company. As we move forward, we will give information to our community in advance of public announcements since you are already part of the family.

We appreciate your understanding and loyalty.

BP

[MadMax]

Vitriol? A bitterly abusive feeling or expression? Where did you see this?

Just read around the various forums or mailing lists. Including here.

There are some people that apparently feel threatened that Modo might do well.

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