MQA is Vaporware

[botrytis]

I have an original copy of a video game (2000), for a company that is still around. The game is still played and still supported by the company. I bought a copy that was not stolen as I bought it at a retail shop, I still cannot use it and they won't support it since it has the license key setup that was smaller than the newer versions of the game. I can't install the game, play it, etc. i basically had to throw it away.

 

It can happen at any time. The company can just cut you off on their whim.

[wgscott]

Yeah, I just tried to install a copy of Adoobie Photoshop that I legally purchased 12 years ago, and this happened.

 

 

[Jud]

54 minutes ago, wgscott said:

Yeah, I just tried to install a copy of Adoobie Photoshop that I legally purchased 12 years ago, and this happened.

 

 

 

Even planned obsolescence is more efficient in software.

[Ralf11]

let's be careful as waves of Adobie-hatred (well-deserved, of course) could easily deflect this thread away from MQA...

[lucretius]

16 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I’m not suggesting direct payments but hey, even I’ve been asked if there was anything that could be done for me. As in, “Is there anything we can do for you?” During a conversation about @Archimago‘s article. 

 

Who was asking?

[lucretius]

12 hours ago, botrytis said:

I have an original copy of a video game (2000), for a company that is still around. The game is still played and still supported by the company. I bought a copy that was not stolen as I bought it at a retail shop, I still cannot use it and they won't support it since it has the license key setup that was smaller than the newer versions of the game. I can't install the game, play it, etc. i basically had to throw it away.

 

It can happen at any time. The company can just cut you off on their whim.

 

I've had a similar experience with an EA video game purchased in the 80's. The good thing is I've never purchased a video game since.

[The Computer Audiophile]

4 hours ago, lucretius said:

 

Who was asking?

BS

[asdf1000]

29 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

BS

 

That’s you officially off the 2019 Xmas card list now. 

 

[firedog]

I think he was off that list about 2 years ago.

[The Computer Audiophile]

18 minutes ago, asdf1000 said:

 

That’s you officially off the 2019 Xmas card list now. 

 

 

7 minutes ago, firedog said:

I think he was off that list about 2 years ago.

 

Yes and yes :~)

[mansr]

57 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

5 hours ago, lucretius said:

Who was asking?

BS

It seems reasonable to assume that others have been given similar offers and that some have accepted.

[Archimago]

On 8/24/2019 at 10:27 AM, botrytis said:

 

Certainly a reason to stay anonymous. 😨

 

Alas, I think the threat is overblown. Here, I found a clip of the Audiophile Godfather:

 

[Thuaveta]

3 hours ago, mansr said:

It seems reasonable to assume that others have been given similar offers and that some have accepted.

 

That some have accepted is speculation until proven otherwise, but that some of the more critical coverage is on the site run by a guy who refused might say something... 😉

[Thuaveta]

On 8/24/2019 at 8:21 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

We went to dinner in Munich a couple years ago with some other HiFi writers.

 

Well, now that we know who was buying, mind telling us who else he was trying to buy ?

[botrytis]

35 minutes ago, Thuaveta said:

 

That some have accepted is speculation until proven otherwise, but that some of the more critical coverage is on the site run by a guy who refused might say something... 😉

 

Ask the reviewers how much they actually reviewed and own now. That is a 'quid quo pro'.

[Thuaveta]

54 minutes ago, botrytis said:

 

Ask the reviewers how much they actually reviewed and own now. That is a 'quid quo pro'.

 

butbutbut, they "liked it so much they bought it for themselves" !

[kumakuma]

2 minutes ago, Thuaveta said:

 

butbutbut, they "liked it so much they bought it for themselves" !

 

at a great price

[Thuaveta]

8 minutes ago, kumakuma said:

at a great price

 

Some might call it a price so great one can't refuse...

[botrytis]

[ARQuint]

1 hour ago, Thuaveta said:

 

butbutbut, they "liked it so much they bought it for themselves" !

 

C’mon guys (Botrysis, kumakuma, Thuaveta.). Chris C reviewed a dCS DAC, Constellation amplifiers, and Wilson loudspeakers - all very expensive components - that are now part of his reference system. You don’t consider that a “quid pro quo” arrangement, I hope! He bought them - at an accommodation price -  because he liked it so much, he bought it for himself.

[mansr]

16 minutes ago, ARQuint said:

C’mon guys (Botrysis, kumakuma, Thuaveta.). Chris C reviewed a dCS DAC, Constellation amplifiers, and Wilson loudspeakers - all very expensive components - that are now part of his reference system. You don’t consider that a “quid pro quo” arrangement, I hope! He bought them - at an accommodation price -  because he liked it so much, he bought it for himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

[Axial]

Short off topic question: Is this the most viewed thread @ Audiophile Style forums? 

...Roughly 200,000 views short of a million. 

[Hugo9000]

23 minutes ago, Axial said:

Short off topic question: Is this the most viewed thread @ Audiophile Style forums? 

...Roughly 200,000 views short of a million. 

The Album of the Evening thread has over 1.27 million views.

 

And the #2 'most viewed' isn't far behind:

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/

 

Edited to add:

#2 and this MQA thread were both started on January 2nd, 2017, while #1 was started in 2011.

[Thuaveta]

32 minutes ago, ARQuint said:

You don’t consider that a “quid pro quo” arrangement, I hope!

 

Assuming he did so at a price substantially lower than he could've gotten from ex-dem at a dealership, I'd consider it to be a valid question (sorry, @The Computer Audiophile), as I'd hope someone with your track record as a reviewer would, but then again, I also tend to think people working for a publication that purports the type of gravitas Stereophile does should be held to much higher standards than someone who runs a publication they treat with the contempt they treat CA / AS.

[KeenObserver]

Interesting.

 

There was a time when the "old guard" audiophile print publications held sway over the audiophile business.  Their reviews and lists were life and death to some manufacturers.  They could pick and choose which letters to the editor they published.

With the advent of the internet this influence waned.

 

And now the claws come out.