Oh my good god. The Rapidweaver/Realmac thing has become a massive nightmare, it’s like dealing with a drama queen or a toddler, if it wasn’t for Stacks I would have sacked it off a few months ago. Constantly being told RWC isn’t a subscription model, then when anybody questioned that it appears to be a subscription model being told in a condescending manner it isn’t by Realmac “You are wrong, buy once keep forever, renew for updates etc”. Now out of the blue it is subscription!!???
To be fair £99 per year is a lot of money (to use on two macs as it always has been), it’s really not worth it, at £297 for three years, there are alternative options, this is now making the base product a premium product, but on its own without Stacks it isn’t very premium, obviously the premium aspect of Stacks has to then be factored in with the price. The mighty Photoshop is £120 a year, but even then after almost two decades with Photoshop I jumped ship to Affinity. RWC base product is not on a par with the range of features of Photoshop. Just seems to me that because I’ve got sites built with the Rapidweaver system I am now being held to ransom by the base product. I really have to source a different mode of working and phase out or transfer sites from Rapidweaver, I just have to think realistically of what other problems are going to occur down the road. I find it fearful that this Rapidweaver system is so unreliable or unpredictable as to what will happen next.
I would have thought as a regular customer, paying about £40 for RWC when you feel the need to upgrade would be about right. I’m only using the interface, FTP and facility for plugin architecture, that has already been made and paid for, when tweaks and compatibility updates are the driving force then Realmac can get multiples of £40 for their work with these aspects and let Stacks drive new customers in and keep existing customers. I would have thought that would be a good deal and a good guaranteed income.
I would post this on the Rapidweaver Community forum, but again there you get your posts deleted. Is Realmac so determined to lose customers, I really don’t get it. Plus with software I can’t constantly be pulled in to Realmac’s own falling out, erratic changes to policies, online propaganda and censorship. It is very much communist state style of editorial when questioning anything. That doesn’t fit the party line, delete it, rewrite history, push out a message and then change it again with no reference to the previous.
In summary, I just find the whole Realmac carry on weird and not something I can have faith in from a business perspective.
Sorry for the long post, just needed to vent, I find this whole Realmac carry on something I regret being pulled in to simply because I use it. Must be so confusing for new or potential customers.
