+1
Although i am not happy about this at all:
Product update free, content packs not.
again: No one is forced to take this update.
Not spam. 
The people I quoted have no clue what “Soundcloud Integration” really is so I showed them. I suppose Steiny didn’t like that gif since it’s gone. 
Anyway… congrats to Steiny on 6.5. I hope it’s successful for them… financially and otherwise.
Whehehe , I upgradet to C6 just 3 weeks ago.
And retrologue? Name implies a spin of from Monologue, Prologue.
Greetz Dylan.
Yeah, and all those stupid guinea pigs like me, who bought CB6 beginning of last year are left to pay. Probably the same as CB5 users do. Just annoying. I hope I shall stand any gas attacks on cb6.5. That is an annoying policy.
Depends on the price. I’d pay 150eur for new wersion of cubase. But for update to existing version, just to get bugs fixed, I’m not so enthusiastic about it. I alrady paid for cubase 6 once, now again?
I hope bugfixes are free, because I don’t need another softsynth, and I never use cubase content anyway. So why pay for that?
I would be satisfied with this but how do you know it?
Yeah, I’ll take x64 bit rewire and bugfixes for free and Steinberg can keep the rest. Though I’m sure it’s nice, I am already covered on synths and samples.
I just upgraded before the cutoff date 
I too, as a long time Cubase user, am a little taken aback by a x.5 paid update possibility.
What’s your source on this info?
No source, just speculation. Steinberg is required (by their own wording on the product license sheet [the thing with the activation code]) to provide product updates for that license. Product updates = bugfixes and upgrades.
What they are probably referring to as “paid” are the two included VST (Padshop and Retrologue). These extra content are not core to the program. However, we may get a better price (other than retail) due to us being Cubase users.
The epiphany I had was that it may be like the Halion Sonic demo that came with Cubase 6. Padshop and Retrologue will be included (on a demo license) and you’ll have the chance to purchase a full license later.
Personally, having activated after Jan 1st, I’m hoping it will be free. Or: if I have to pay, it’ll be no more than $50 (I was planning on purchasing padshop anyway).
Hurry with the reveal! 
The really big point is that Cubase continues to evolve, adapting to the changing landscape of the virtual studio that current technologies support. That’s really exciting! 
And receiving direct responses and information from SB representatives remains a huge plus for Cubase users as it’s not an industry standard style of interaction with the user base.
I don’t want more add-ons
Just want the bugfixes
don’t squeeze in more VSTi’s over the back of users who just want the update.
If I find real value in them i’ll buy them seperately.
Word man.
True.
Definetely ACK and true. Else I feel like a cash cow.
Try to compare with Pro Tools (Avid) politician. You will be happy, you (we) are using Cubase. 
Still at 5.5.3, but I guess I will stay there for a while.
But tomorrow we know more…
I hope you’re right, but what’s to stop them from saying that v6.5 needs a new license? What’s to stop them then from gouging us every other week?
If this turns out to be an expensive upgrade just to get 64 bit Rewire and bugfixes, with other “features” of questionable value bundled in, it will definitely alienate a lot of Cubase users. Seriously, I just effing upagraded to v6.
Activated on: 23.12.2011, 18:39
The shi++y thing is that I was running fine on a demo license and could have easily just used that for another week before I activated the real one, after which I would have gotten the 6.5 update for free.
Try to compare to Reaper, and you will jump ship.
My point is that your point is moot.
I have a license for “Cubase 6”.
It has already been confirmed that 6.5 is an UPDATE to Cubase 6.
Ergo, if the “update” requires a new license, it isn’t an update to Cubase 6 anymore…
It’s all legal wording and contract law…
Yes, a software license is a contract.