glennloopez Really? You’re going there? Why stick up for a company that doesn’t have an interest in customer loyalty or satisfaction?
You’re forgetting customers aren’t given a choice here and are being forced to continually update a product that 100% doesn’t need any more additions, which are now leading to a cluttered interface.
Go on to social media & Youtube etc and read/watch reviews of Cubase 13. Have you actually looked at it? It looks WORSE than it has for years, actually the previous version Cubase 12 Pro looks like the updated version, much cleaner GUI.
I just don’t think you should have to update to this version whether you like it or not, or risk failure in the future. I’m used to the version I have, like I said, it doesn’t need any more development. All that is added are frivolous additions that make no difference to the long term & experienced user. If you want to continue updating for ever be my guest, but don’t tell me I should be happy with that business practice. Steinberg realise the only way they’ll continue getting your money is if they revamp the software in some way, so they choose to give it a graphical “overhaul”, and it ends up looking worse, just so they can differentiate the new version. It’s a business tactic that has a cynical underlying. Again, look it up on forums or comments on Youtube and you’ll find a huge amount of long term users don’t like the new graphic updates. Over cluttered . If you’re happy sucking up to Steinberg and giving them money year upon year to make up reasons in which the software is now “better”, and kid us all on that this will now make your music making 10x easier and your music sound better, than by all means go for it, but sometimes when you’re making music, you just want some thing sin your studio to remain unchanged and not have to worry about forced updates/optimisation/bug fixing/crashes etc.
Oh and by the way, how would you like it if several years after buying your car, the dealership where you bought it told you your car will stop working in the new year, and so you’ll have no alternative but to buy a new one, spend ages setting it up and optimising it before you can enjoy driving it again, only for this to repeat? “I like my car and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it!” you say… TOO BAD your current car will stop working and you don’t have a choice. That’s not consumer choice or freedom, but instead imposing fake limits so they can continue to sell you new ones. It’s not too far from selling you a phone that is programmed to stop working in a certain number of years so you have to upgrade (A practice Apple was accused of with their I phone).
They do not want you to be happy with your current model/program or whatever., you just get used to the new one then the latest model/software program is released, and you have to start thinking about migrating to that. moving the goalposts. It’s happening with gaming companies too, full games used to be released on a physical media that you could play without limits for the rest of your life if your console etc was still working, but now software companies want to sell you a license to use it, with the caveat that they can pull the plug at any time.
