Creative screws customers yet again!

[3Ball]

Hello all,

Sorry if this thread is posted somewhere in here, but I am trying to make sure that the word is spead and I encourage everyone to voice their opinions/thoughts not only on these forums, but also in the linked thread as well. Please take the time to read part of the thread and understand the discust that many of us are feeling towards them currently. Me nor my company will ever be purchasing another one of their products. That is for certain.

http://forums.creative.com/cre..._date_ascending&page=1

Best,

3Ball

 

[corkyg]

Technically, sound cards may not be peripherals - but it is a very gray area. Suffice it to say the corresponding thread that relates is here:

Creative

I am inclined to move that thread to General Hardware. This one requires some thought . . .

 

[Tsuwamono]

More sites are posting his work though. Look at the Omega drivers project, its probably going to end up like that

 

[delman]

I have had previous creative products before and they failed to support them when I asked so I ended up returning all of them. They weren't just sound cards they were also there MP3 players too. In short I learned not to use creative ever long before vista was out. Even if they do allow him to start working on it again I still won't buy from them due to the attitude they have toward their customers.

 

[Modelworks]

Creative showing its true colors.
They should put the guy on the payroll rather than threatening him.

I stopped using all creative products with the sblive cards.
The drivers were so bad and the support from creative so poor I tossed the card in the trash.

I will never use another creative product.
Not cards, speakers, or anything else.

 

[Harmattan]

I switched from Creative (Audigy4) chiefly because of their driver shenaneggans in Vista a couple months ago and will never go back.

What's telling here is the total lack of support from a company for their highest volume product-line: a card owner fixed most of the issues customers have been clamoring for with a couple of driver tweaks that Creative couldn't do in over a year. The company's developers are either entirely inept or they are unwilling to put a small amount of resources into fixing a widely-used driver. Either way they have been, and will continue to, lose customers... and now this.

On a related note, now would be the perfect time for a company like Yamaha or Toshiba to jump in with a card of their own.

 

[nerp]

I'm ready to put a knife into Creative once and for all.

 

[bruceb]

As you said, they are a bunch of programming IDIOTS.
That & creative is saying they only paid some much for
the License (for dolby, I think) to be able to enable the
feature on certain product models. It would be cheaper
in the long run & more satisfied customers to just pay
the license holder a bit more to use it In All their models.

I don't own their products, but I can assure you, I never will.
And I also believe that all hardware makers should provide
Vista Drivers for anything made say within the last 2 years or so.
I for one, will not move to Vista, just to toss my Lexmark X73 out
in the trash, since Lexmark / Dell do not have Vista drivers for it.
But it is an old unit .. about 5 years. But what if was more recent
and you can't get them ? ? ? Buy new hardware .. No way, until
the thing breaks down.

 

[JackMDS]

If One did not wrote the drivers from scratch and one is using lic. Technologies then legally they are right.

If helping people is so important, then One should remove any solicitation for payment and be done with.

If One wants to make money from software/drivers, it is OK.

However, one should make it his wn genuine work and Not work that is partially taken from others.

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The following is Not directed toward the OP.

In general.

The tendency to justify illegal and other "Tacky" actions because other people are "Stupid"", ""Retards"", etc., is quite ridicules.

 

[3Ball]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
If One did not wrote the drivers from scratch and one is using lic. Technologies then legally they are right.

If helping people is so important, then One should remove any solicitation for payment and be done with.

If One wants to make money from software/drivers, it is OK.

However, one should make it his wn genuine work and Not work that is partially taken from others.

=============================

The following is Not directed toward the OP.

In general.

The tendency to justify illegal and other "Tacky" actions because other people are "Stupid"", ""Retards"", etc., is quite ridicules.

This may be true, alas the problem here arises more so as a moral issue. Though the legality of moral issues has little to no bearing, to the public and general community it is quite important as we are seeing right now. Do they have the right to handle the situation in the manor in which they are doing? Absolutely! Should they have? Doesn't seem to have worked in their favor thus far!

Best,

3Ball

 

[3Ball]

If no one has seen this there?s now a petition to demand that Creative provide better driver quality, stop selling mislabeled products, leave Daniel_K alone and support open source development.

Please see http://www.petitiononline.com/crtvlabs/petition.html

Best,

3Ball

 

[Sheninat0r]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/0...-homegrown-vista-driv/

"Update: It seems Creative has decided to allow Daniel_K to continue with one particular endeavor at least, noting that "as long as no intellectual property of Creative is distributed, [it] will have no problem with it." Thanks, Aaron!"

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: Sheninat0r
http://www.engadget.com/2008/0...-homegrown-vista-driv/

"Update: It seems Creative has decided to allow Daniel_K to continue with one particular endeavor at least, noting that "as long as no intellectual property of Creative is distributed, [it] will have no problem with it." Thanks, Aaron!"

Seems that post has been deleted.

Also seems like NewEgg has gotten in on the action.

 

[shingletingle]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie

Originally posted by: Sheninat0r
http://www.engadget.com/2008/0...-homegrown-vista-driv/

"Update: It seems Creative has decided to allow Daniel_K to continue with one particular endeavor at least, noting that "as long as no intellectual property of Creative is distributed, [it] will have no problem with it." Thanks, Aaron!"

Seems that post has been deleted.

Also seems like NewEgg has gotten in on the action.

And you really believe that is really Newegg making a statement on the Creative message boards? On a Sunday when Newegg is closed? Claiming to have processed 5000 returns in the past 48 hours (which would have been the weekend, again, when Newegg is closed)? Come on now....

It's amazing people jump on that post and believe it just because they like reading negative stuff about Creative.

 

[Old Hippie]

And you really believe that is really Newegg making a statement on the Creative message boards? On a Sunday when Newegg is closed? Claiming to have processed 5000 returns in the past 48 hours (which would have been the weekend, again, when Newegg is closed)? Come on now....

It sounded a little "creative" ( :roll to me, and it doesn't look like NewEgg deleted any items, but I thought I'd pass it on.

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
If One did not wrote the drivers from scratch and one is using lic. Technologies then legally they are right.

If helping people is so important, then One should remove any solicitation for payment and be done with.

If One wants to make money from software/drivers, it is OK.

However, one should make it his wn genuine work and Not work that is partially taken from others.

=============================

The following is Not directed toward the OP.

In general.

The tendency to justify illegal and other "Tacky" actions because other people are "Stupid"", ""Retards"", etc., is quite ridicules.

this might be true, however, if creative does not live up to their expectations i believe your point becomes invalid..people just want the hardware to do what it said it would on the box