This is a repost from the old Advisory Board:
Hey guys -
Frost pricing is estimated to be $495 per license, with a similar support model to krakatoa [eg support, upgrades for 1 year included in that price]
Feedback on that? It’s cheaper than some competing meshers, and we are not charging for render nodes like others. i wanted to win on performance, pricing, and including free rendering.
thoughts?
cb
February 15, 2011 | Thinkbox Software
We’d probably buy ~0.75 per Krak license at that price. Maybe more depending on where the development goes.
You could sweeten it with Wonder Twin pricing, too, where customers with Krakatoa get a discount or bonus features.
February 15, 2011 | Chad Capeland
i wanted to have a bundle package [similar to pro bundle] but we can certainly consider a discount for active support contracts.
as you can see, i 'm trying to push active support contracts! why? we want to have the best support in the world, period. that costs money!
cb
February 15, 2011 | Thinkbox Software
So price Frost cheap for current (not new) Krakatoa licensees (up to the number of Krakatoa licenses they have). Get all your Krak customers to pay a small amount up front to encourage adoption and spread the word and just make money with them paying for Frost subscriptions.
You could also sell Frost ONLY as a bundle with Krakatoa for the first license (for new customers) and only sell Frost separately for subsequent licenses. You’ll get more upfront for that first license, you’ll have an easier time with support (since they can debug and share bug report files MUCH easier with PRT’s and Magmaflow), and you get Krakatoa into more studios and those studios might subsequently decide to get more Krak.
In an ideal world, you’d put lots of interoperability into Krak and Frost because all your customers have both, and we’d save the headache of users wanting Frost features in Krakatoa and vice versa but having to do funny workarounds to make it happen.
February 15, 2011 | Chad Capeland
So what was decided? I need to submit a request soon.
March 8, 2011 | Chad Capeland
The release price is $495, with no bundling options.
March 17, 2011 | Paul