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Originally posted by MenthiX
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Originally posted by nikosATH
don't you think that apart from the legal obligations (which I totally agree are 100% fulfilled) isn't there the good name and fame of the company
Patchou could have done two things...
- Get custom names and other features that are currently missing done first and release after that. Which would mean that there would't be a Messenger Plus! Live at all at this moment and you would have been unable to use Messenger Plus! for at least a few more weeks.
- Do like he did now and create a Plus! Live as feature complete as possible, but still release a few days after Windows Live MEssenger so people can actually start using WLM together with Plus! already.
Either way there will always be people who wont be happy. Patchou choose the method that he thinks will get the least people unhappy. It was all a matter of time so he could release something when WLM becomes public... because time was short not all features could be done... so he decided to give lower priority to features that already have an alternative... the two bigges examples are Custom Names (WLM has rename contact) and Quick Icons (WLM has an emoticon button). Both of these features will probably be back in later versions. In fact, Quick Icons already is back in a private beta version.... It's being tested right now and will be released soon. I'm sure Patchou will take another look at custom names too, especially since so many people are asking for it.
You could use MSN 7.5 and Plus! 3.xx for now if you really can't live without custom names. The bottom line is...
- If patchou wanted to release Plus! Live 4.00 with all the old features in it he would now still be developing and you would have needed to wait even longer before you could use Plus! with WLM.
- If patchou decided to give custom names a higher priority, then he would have needed to drop another feature and other people would have been unhappy. Because there is an alternative in WLM which does at least some of Plus!' custom names features Patchou choose to wait with custom names instead of another feature.
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Originally posted by nikosATH
it seems that this program is nearing its EOL (end of life)
The amount of total users is still growing every day.
To be honest the majority of the people who use Plus were forced to do so because of the shortcomings of renaming in the original MSN - after a while you ended up with a list of silly nicknames for which you didn't have the slightest idea who could it be....
Not being able to transfer the list as it is, renders the MSN live unusuable anyway (since you never know who-is-who in your list) so either way we are stuck with MSN 7.5 and Plus at least for as long as microsoft doesn't try to FORCE us into using the 8 (which I predict will happen very soon...)
Do you think if Patchou delays any further his transfer option and if we are all forced to manually rename each and every contact in our list would EVER want to use Plus again??? That is why I am talking of an EOL... it has happened in the past with other successful "third party programs" which went terribly bad at some point... it can happen again...
I must say a "big thank" you though to all you that are taking the time to answer and discuss this matter with me and also to whoever is talking directly with the developer into (hopefully) rushing out a WORKING Plus version sometime soon.
PS I wouldn't mind paying a resonable amount of money to get a working Plus let's say "Pro" version with several extra features which can co-exist with the free one (much like the Trillian developers have already done)
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