Spitfire BBC Symphonic Orchestra Discover

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(05-21-2020, 03:49 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote:

(05-20-2020, 04:06 PM)peastman Wrote: Almost certainly the latter.  They know perfectly well what makes a good sample library, and that an orchestral library with no solo instruments and no marcato articulations will be very limiting even for a beginner.  But they're hoping they can get a few people to pay them for it anyway, and when those people find out how limited it is, they'll be more likely to upgrade to the real version of that library rather than some other library.

That doesn't really seem like an effective ploy, considering the vast jump in price between versions of BBC SO. Discover is €49 (or "free"). The next step up, Core, is €349 on sale, €449 normally. That's like selling someone a bicycle and when the customer finds it's a limited type of transport, you offer to let them upgrade to a Ferrari. I'm pretty sure people who are dissatisfied with Discover will turn to some developer who offers and intermediately priced library.

I'm not so sure. "Loss Aversion" is a powerful thing, as is brand loyalty; many people might go "Well, I'm already out $50 on this, I might as well stick with it." I think almost everyone has at some point paid excessive amounts for things that can be had for much less merely because they don't know there's something else. It's sort of like in your analogy, people who buy SUV's of a particular brand because their parents only drove SUV's of that brand and they don't realize that a 2-seater or a sedan would be a better fit for their needs... or perhaps someone who buys the chassis of a car, and then goes on to buy the rest of that model car, even though it is more expensive than a cheaper car, they already had the chassis.