This is just pathetic. With this attitude curse definitly will loose a lot of users! Maybe not directly, but at the time WoWInterface releases its new client, at the latest...

I don't know if it can be said more clearly than this:

CURSE HAVE BEEN STATING THAT THE PREMIUM FEATURE ON THE CLIENT UP UNTIL THIS POINT WERE FOR PREVIEW PURPOSES ONLY. CURSE HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT THERE WILL BE A PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE COMING THAT WILL REMOVE THESE PREMIUM FEATURES.

If that doesn't clear it up for you, you need some form of help. Every comment from angry people in this thread should simply read:

"I'm greedy! I'm greedy! I'm greedy! I'm also selfish, big headed, arrogant! Did I mention that I am greedy? Yup... I'm a greedy, selfish git!"

"yikes almost 200 replies of angry people curse you may want to think about doing somthing else."

Because 200 is a substantial portion of the 5+ million unique hits they get per month, yes?

So I wonder what the curse.com guys doing now?

Since pretty much 90% or so from what I seen give or take that posted stuff about this saying this was a wrong move.

Now what they going to do.

I'm going to be using another addon manager. This premium thing is crap compared to what wowmatrix does for free. A slap in the face to everyone that has used curse for 4 years now.

Alright, I'm a big Curse.com supporter, but I have to agree:  the one click update isn't much of a premium feature.

I read ArkInRev's suggestions in the fourms, and I like them.  Dude has a good head on his shoulders, and he's not wrong.  

Also K0rpus had what I think is a pretty neat idea:  peer to peer.  A bittorrent style distribution model would be neat.  Blizzard does it with patches... curse could, too.  I think it would help lower Curse's bandwitdh costs by spreading the load out over the users.  Premium could then offer P2P+, taking some bandwidth from Curse to do so.

To me, your premium package is worth paying for without the one-click download, and with ArkInRev's and K0rpus's suggestions, you could make a free client that offered the one click functionality without loosing out on ad revenue or killing your bandwidth costs.  It seems like a solid plan, and all the tech is out there, waiting to be used.

I'll still be getting a Premium subscription whether you go this way or not eventually.  I don't have the strong moral outrage that others seem to over this.  But I can't help but see the helpful suggestions you guys are getting, and it seems to me that maybe, just maybe, you can prove P.T. Barnum wrong:  maybe you <i>can</> please all of the people, all of the time.

"reminder: as the curse client came out, many have seen the "logged : <NAME> : premium" and have posted their concerns. The Curse Team told us: "Nonono, we do not have any plan to make premium feetures, it is just a name ect.""

Not true.  Curse has stated for months that the client was a premium preview and they would be offering a premium service at some time.

yikes almost 200 replies of angry people curse you may want to think about doing somthing else.

Sorry curse, but i'm going to voice this again, This is a Bad Business decision. You wait until a major patch to block your main competitor and then a few weeks later after you give a band-aid to the hurt people, you go "F you!" and give us this waste of resources. The Curse Client is no longer on my Computer at all and WoWMatrix remains in hopes that they recover.

I agree with most of the comments here - taking away things that were on the previous client is absurd. Update all, autmoatic updates ... and I was a "Premium" user before. Now I'm supposed to pay for those features?

Ridiculous!

I'm finding a new client.

Bottom line is the package is not good enough value for money. An 'update all' button, donations and limited chances at winning beta keys (I'm not sure how many developers will deal with Curse if its selling their beta keys on) is not really worth the money.

If this was 5 years ago then maybe it would have worked but not now.  If I was in your position I'd move towards a Peer-to-Peer version of your client to keep bandwidth costs down then generate income from an advertisement based model while donating some of that advertising space to the more popular mod makers to ask for donations.

this is, in my opinion, very greedy.

A little greedy manual:

first step: Everything is for free to get all the mods on your site, fill up the database with the help of the community through the curse client.

second step: you cover the new monthly fee with a "help and support" the autors.

this is a basic economic strategy: you create addiction, and after a while, you let them pay.

reminder: as the curse client came out, many have seen the "logged : <NAME> : premium" and have posted their concerns. The Curse Team told us: "Nonono, we do not have any plan to make premium feetures, it is just a name ect." Now we see.

I also think that this concept ill not work because it is cannibalism: Premium users wont get adds->less view->less money from the adds. What Curse will win from one hand, it will lose it on the other hands. And I do not think, that they will get many premium users. Time will tell.

Anyway, i play on MAC, the client is not working and never had. I use only like 20 addons, i can update them myself, take me perhaps 10 min max by majors updates.

Couldn't agree more with cavik.

The update all function ist the most important feature.

Without it, many users like me won't use the client and look for an alternative.

I just wanted to throw in my cents and might be a bit off topic in doing so.  Please bare with me as I do have a point to this.

First when the curse client was originally released I happily installed it expecting a fast easy way to update mods from my, at the time favorite, wow mod site.  After installing the client I discovered it was little more then a resource hogging train wreck of code and promptly uninstalled it.

I was then turned on to the Wowace client. Now that was an good client!  Alas all good things must come to an end and Wowace couldn't stay afloat.

That is when I stumbled on Wowmatrix.  I love the client and very happily used it until 3.1.  

Now I will be honest I was really pissed when I discovered what curse and Wowinterface blocked out Wowmatrix.  However I read up on the situation and I can see where both sites are coming from.  However I was loath to try the curse client again and the Wowinterface client is still in the works.

I was quiet pleasantly surprised to find the Curse client had evolved into a very nice program.  So much so I forgot about Wowmatrix and any grievance I had against Curse for blocking Wowmatrix.  The Curse client was competitive.

Now Curse is offering a premium service. Honestly I'm not one for "premium" services and ads don't bother me as I sometimes find games or related things I might otherwise not become aware of.  However the removal of the update all is, to be honest and frank, both unimaginative and greedy.  

Yes I realize money needs to come into cover costs and you need to keep the "free" users on the client as long as possible to maximize ads generated revenue.  However as has been said by many before me you can do that with out making the client so cumbersome and irritating.

Several suggestions have been offered to come out as win for all parties involved but I will make another.  Allow the users to queue up all the mods they use but insert and ad driven break between mod download such as they do with television.

Quite frankly its so cumbersome that I am beginning to think maybe I was right when I thought Curse was being greedy when they shut out Wowmatrix.

All of that being said the premium features, aside from the download all, are very compelling and I would seriously entertain getting a premium membership if I wasn't paying for a feature that should be part of the ad driven client.

An overwhelming percentage of your users are telling you this is a bad move, and yet you keep saying it isn't? It's downright foolhardy as far as I'm concerned.

I've been using the client since AceUpdater died, tonight I stumble on that... uninstalled it and installed WoWMatrix. For the addons it can't update, I'll do it manually once in a while, I have ZERO problem with that.

It's not that I have money problem, not at ALL.

I actually MANUALLY just gave donations (greaters than paying for this "premium membership" thing) to some of the addons authors.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Not impressed with this "Premium" crap. I can't shift-click multiple addons to update any more and the sloooooow downloads is really annoying that I can only get this service from "Premium". To hell with you guys for shutting down WowMatrix. I took the time to swap to you and now you're gonna try and get more money for what should be a free service and it should be our decision to donate to the author. Hell, you want payment for this service, just put some adds on your Curse Client. I will tolerate that over seeing PREMEIUM all over the place!

What happened? Why is the one button to update all add-ons not still an option or non premium?  I don't understand why you felt it was neccesary to change something that was already on the normal client.  If people want to pay to help support the authors they will do it for that, not for something that was a nice easy button.

Oh, and to echo the issue raised regarding the problem with your throttling.   You should look into it.

I eventually killed the curse client last night after attempting to download atlas.  After several minutes of it sitting there I found it unacceptable.

Sad to see it come to this.  I wish an advertising based model had worked out for you.   I've uninstalled the client as it provides no use to me anymore.  

I'll either find a free alternative, such as wowmatrix, or I will simply get updates via simple browser.   In turn, you lose the profiling updates that the client provided.   Unfortunately its a lose/lose proposition.  

Hopefully, as others have posted, you will find an alternative that will work for the community as well as for your business interests.  until such time, good luck to you.