Another slap-in-the-face to us M+ owners from our loveless NI parents.

"all they want to do is make money"

…but they could have chosen to make that money from NI users first!

Plugin, mapped samples, call it what you will - MPC users have it before NI's own customers.

Well that is the way Akai do it. Simultaneous release for desktop and standalone for one price.

Even with the stems release, which was staggered (desktop first, standalone later) it was one price.

I‘m puzzled. First you say NI should have made money by offering these soundpacks to Maschine+ users, before offering them to MPC users.

Then you suggest NI should have offered them for free.

What now?

@ozon Do I really need to explain?

OK, my first post was in response to the claim that all NI want do is make money. The fact is they did not need to team with Akai to make money. They could make money from us i.e. releasing future content in both standalone and desktop simultaneously for one price, like Akai do.

If NI choose to release desktop and standalone, but individually sold/priced, that won't go down well.

I’m not the one drawing the line.

The line is already well visible when in a thread talking about the NAMM announcement people saying “I feel slapped in the face” could be accused of not staying on topic.

Isn’t it better to open a “Slapped in the face” thread?

About “how many”… well…as many as necessary. A thousand threads are less ignorable than a single thread.

How many threads did NI needed before they stopped telling to some users “it’s just you” about maaaany different problems (NA, installations, not appearing products, loading times,…)?

I understand what you mean, but I’ll bring you one example about a politician who received a letter with a petition signed by 250000 citizens complaining about an injustice.

He didn’t move a single finger.

Then… he started receiving 25 letters a day by the single citizens. 25 the first day, 25, the second day, 25 the third day,…

He didn’t wait 10000 days before correcting the injustice…

(Note that I’m not discussing if OP is right or wrong…just that he felt the need to express his feelings. In a dedicated thread. And that companies need a lot of “proofs” before they move a finger)

There was already another thread in which it was on-topic for people to express their ire. Even in the Namm thread, in which the OP had already posted, it seemed on-topic for people to express their disappointment. The OP wasn't called out. Perhaps you can point to members who were.

This is not a political forum, and this is not about oe person receiving tons of messages. This is a community forum, which is home to many people of many differing opinions. Nobody is saying that contrary opinions should be silenced. However, filling this place with unnecessary repeated threads is inconvenient for many here, not least those who are in charge of keeping this place running properly.

I've not suggested limiting posts, nor have I tried to stifle opinion. I'm just suggesting it needn't occupy multiple threads. You don't care for the general flow of this forum, or consider others' enjoyment of the community to be important, then go ahead and do whatever you want.