Yes, It should have been kept free.

I can understand your stance there, however I'm sure you can see that reaching viability as a company is a better solution.

Thanks for your feedback.

Agree. As a developer I understand thet there is costs involved, etc. But one can always ask for donations, and keep the adds in the client. I won't mind the adds, and for those who do, yes, buy the subscription to remove them, but keep the features the same.

I learned a long time ago while paying for wowace that being dependent on donations isn't viable either :(

I think you'll find that the non-premium client is still very usable.

I have found it is not (and BTW saying "i think you'll find" comes across incredibly arrogant).

Limiting bandwith was the straw for me. My reply on the other thread (why pay and who does it benefit) explains why I'm uninstalling CC. I hope most people do the same.

I'm sorry if it comes across as arrogant was by no means the intent.

It comes off as Curse being greedy. Taking funcationality we've always had away and forcing us to pay otherwise suffer incovenaices of having to dl ea addon one at a time. Find another way to nickle and dime people, this is  wholey unacceptable. And for every one of us posting here, you know there are a lot more angry people.

You dont create a premium service by taking away something from someone, then charging for it and calling it premium. For Example: Life! Premium Service includes Oxygen, Free Will and Donuts! Only at 5 bucks per months!

I can understand your point, which is why we've been very explicit about what is a premium feature and that the client was operating in a preview mode.  We didn't try to hide or dupe anyone. 

I do understand why the Curse Client went premium, but being a part of a "premium preview" without being exactly told what premium features were given to us to try didn't seem very smart when premium went live. 

So far I'm not that dissatisfied with what you have to offer and I will not stop using the client.  But the most I am unhappy about is the loss of bandwidth.  While downloading QuestHelper for instance as a large addon download, it sounds like it would take forever.

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Originally Posted by Bigred_ore

It comes off as Curse being greedy. Taking funcationality we've always had away and forcing us to pay otherwise suffer incovenaices of having to dl ea addon one at a time. Find another way to nickle and dime people, this is  wholey unacceptable. And for every one of us posting here, you know there are a lot more angry people.

You dont create a premium service by taking away something from someone, then charging for it and calling it premium. For Example: Life! Premium Service includes Oxygen, Free Will and Donuts! Only at 5 bucks per months!

I'd just like to point out that many of the features that have been developed for the Curse Client and the Curse Premium Service were not originally part of Curse.com's offering to users. They are all recent additions that Curse' have repeatedly stated would be subject to Premium restrictions in the future. S

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While downloading QuestHelper for instance as a large addon download, it sounds like it would take forever.

It did.

For those of you downloading QuestHelper, about how long did it take for the download to complete?

I've always understood that at some point the 'premium' would require payment.

I'm happy with the price, and even more happy with the fact that the developers will see some of that money...i have no problem paying for an account for both my wife and myself.  :)

i have not a Creditcard ... cant use premium :(

god damn the most European hate Creditcards

VorTEX_de,

We should have a payment solution in place for those without credit cards.  Let me forward that on and find out for you.

The worlds economies are screwed all due to GREED. This is all this is, pure greed. It's stupid to take something away from lots of people and then ask them to pay for it knowing dam-well you're going to upset most of them.

Noticed the unusual message today so decided to come onto the forums and check it out.

What a bunch of babies, none of you are entitled to anything.  This website STILL provides ever function I need without having to pay an extra dime.  I was surprised the whole time that such a service like Curse Client would be offered without any sort of payment.  When I got the message today, i said nothing more than "O Well."  You can still do everything you wanted to do before, still much easier than going out and manually checking if mods are updated, then downloading, then unzipping and then copying and pasting correctly.  Get a job and learn how the real world works. LOL

1. Why would you take away the update all feature? That infuriates me down to the bone.  It wouldn't be so bad if you would let me download multiple items at once.

2. WHY would you slow down the bandwidth rate? I don't get it, are you trying to lose members?

3. Why are you needing money? The economy is completly shattered right now and i cannot afford to have ANOTHER monthly payment. Are you expecting that millions of people will be ok with this?

4. Cool you've got ads now that are not needed, for the people who decide not to pay anymore a month.

5. I JUST updated my deadly boss mods 5 minutes ago and its prompting me to re-update the same update again.  Now its done and it took 2 minutes.

5 reasons why you changing everything is **edited** (find a less colorful abbreviation) and you need to change it back to how it originally was.

Edited. Language. Tsk Tsk

Awww not nice. Guess you're going for a ban?