Bad business decision. Encourage your customers in any way possible creates loyalty. Will not buy another product from them if this is how they treat customers.
absolutely unbelievable. I'm definitely staying away from Creative products until this blows over. If not, so long Creative. I've been eyeing the ASUS Xonar.
I'm too sad to even put in words what I feel. 10 years down the drane. Hope dies last and this time it took a very long time. It was about time I stopped believing in my Ex-favorite brand which I considered high above average. I am sorry, but there's no more avoyding it :( Never again wil I sell Creaative MP3's, Graph cards, Sound boards, Speakers or whatever and will post a sign in store condoning Creative
I've been using Creative products for almost 20 years now, and have never been happy with their support of their products. This is the last straw. Goodbye Creative! And good riddance!
I am fairly sad to see how long creative has been doing this two costumers. As a long supporter of their MP3 players and Sound cards. Next time I will think of looking into a IPod or something where the company cares
Creative has really dropped the ball on Vista drivers. I returned an X-Fi just last week because the drivers are useless and Creative's support was incompetent. Had I known about these 3rd party drivers I may not have returned it. Creative's reaction to the driver programmer is an utter disgrace. I will never buy another Creative product again.
creatives drivers suck, this man fixed the problems and added some nice features. and the guys from creative just f---ed it up. the only thing they see is money bcouse his drivers where multifunctionel they reported it as
Instead of helping customers to use our products lets mistreat the ones who already do. Way to go Creative!!!!!! headhunt your management staff from macdonalds?
WTF creative. This would be mildly acceptable if you made your own drivers for Vista, but since you haven't, you can go screw yourselves. I guess I won't be buying that X-Fi sound card after all...
Creative has to remember who has the most influence on their market, and screwing us over for this long is going to hurt them even worse in the long run.
Ever since Creative had the nerve to remove driver downloads and charge for drivers on CDs, I have stopped using Creative. But I am not surprised at all with the recent planned obsolescence strategy employed by Creative. Their drivers are one of the reasons SP1 of Vista does not install on many machines.
I purchased an X-Fi well over a year ago, and have been very unsatisfied with creatives driver and customer support. To do my part I will inform all of my sales associates at the large retail electronics chain at which I work.
The only sound cards I have ever used were Creative's. I will no longer buy Creative products if they punish their customers for modifying their software to make it simply work. This is a shaky legal argument anyway. Would Ford sue you for selling a modified Mustang? Creative sells cards, and gives the drivers away, so Creative has already been paid. They are just using the driver issue to double-dip.
Large corporations have to understand that customers have just about had it and are beginning to learn how to use the internet to fight back the only way the corps will listen to.
I purchases a card for my Vista machine and it stated that it supported Vista. The ONLY reason why I purchased it was to use the card for sound fonts...guess what does not work...? SOUND FONTS! I was told by Creative that they did not have a fix currently and that I could be put on a list of users that suggest fixes. WOW! I think it is time to stop buying their products since they cant support their own products! Not to mention, false advertising!
Vista, whatever it's pluses and minuses, represents a major shift in the PC. Because of the radically different hardware and software requirements, every part of the industry has been affected. On one hand, companies were required to invest significant amounts of money to repurpose existing hardware to work within a Vista environment. In some cases, such as Intel, the 915 chipset was rendered obsolete. Microsoft's lack of industry leadership and partnership ultimately resulted in an obsolescence and temporary outgrowing of our current technologies.Creative chose the morally wrong road, in failing to invest the money needed to overcome this otherwise temporary and minor hiccup in their product delivery. Granted, nobody other than creative should be profiting from their product and hard work, but their heavy-handed approach to an individual who was making up for their shortcomings is simply unacceptable. A wiser company would have hired him straight away, ensured his software worked globally, and been miles ahead through a cheap (to them) fix to the Vista problems. The fallout from this fiasco will cost them untold millions more than paying off one DIY developer ever would.
Creative hardware isn't bad but their drivers are terrible. Simple bugs remained unfixed. Even the WinXP drivers never worked correctly. They are a terrible company. Buying their products only leads to frustration.
Typical of the 'Old School' way of thinking that is ruining modern hardware, software and the internet. I refuse to buy any more of their products because of this.
Faulty products should be fixed immediately, it should have never fallen on Daniel_K's shoulders to fix it in the first place.My question is HOW can one person possibly fix the broken drivers when the entire Creative team cannot?Boycott.
