Demo Download

Until recently the policy has been that a demo version would not be available until the release of 1.0.  The reason involves the inability to handle large quantities of technical support cases that a demo on a beta release would bring (each support case would push the release date back some).  Yes that means less immediate sales, but it also means not letting the release date slide too much.  We reward those brave enough to put up with our bugs with the $20 pre-order discount.

 

We did break our own policy by distributing a demo version (0.5) at TCLW just over a week ago.  Shame on us!  Our punishment has been that the 0.5 version has been less stable than previous releases.  0.6 is right around the corner and may be stable enough/close enough to 1.0 that with enough begging I might be persuaded to make a demo copy available for public download.

 

LightsOnLogan - Remember the Holloween season is nearly upon us, my take is that many folks use Halloween to debug and get set up for the Christmas season, so my input would be to release a 0.6/0.7 version availble for demo download (after we have cleaned up any bugs). I think that could significantly boost your sales especially with some of the competition still in re-design right now (nice if you get all the imports functionality included as well :-)