Mistress Darqflame wrote:
Hmm.
That looks fishy.
Quote:
While it is not our place to condemn the decisions of Creative regarding this issue, our customers come first. That being said, it has come to our attention that many of our customers are not happy with the products Creative has released nor the support for those products. To wit, we have processed nearly 5,000 return orders within the past 48 hours. While it is not normally in our best interest to publically comment in a manufacturer's forum, the overwhelming concensus has left us little choice. As such, effective tommorow morning newegg.com will suspend sales of the sound cards in question, particularly those indicated as "Vista compatible", pending an investigation into the matter. Those of you whom recently ordered such a card will still recieve your product as indicated in any relevant conversations. While we regret this abrupt decision, it has been deemed neccessary to protect the interest of our consumers. We welcome contact from Creative as soon as is possible so that we may resolve this issue.
Apart from the dodgy misuse of 'whom' (
) it claims to be taken from newegg's site, but searches on Newegg found nothing, and they still appear to be offering all the Creative product range.
Someone's propaganda's getting a bit carried away, perchance?
I agree that Creative's PR was lousy, but wasn't this guy reverse-engineering copyrighted proprietary software
and adding unlicensed (Dolby) functionality?