Reaktor 4 & the decline of NI

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Tue May 20, 2003 11:37 am

Anyone else been looking around the NI forums lately ? Reaktor 4 and Reaktor Sessions are being absolutely ripped apart by angry users. Seems it's bug-city for NI again.

I've posted a few derogatory things on their forums lately too (I own Kontakt & Absynth). NI really irritate me - too many neglected users, buggy products, half-fulfilled promises etc

I think now they're reaping the consequences of working on too many products while staring at the bank balance...

I really do prefer the serenity of CW. Better to release nothing than to get people excited about upgrades and then dump a buggy app on the market.

Funny though that NI have never looked so powerful, successful and prosperous - lots of products, lots of plans, lots of users etc. But is this the critical moment in a corporate cycle when things start to slide ?

Is there such a thing as corporate hubris ?

Am I just burbling ?

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue May 20, 2003 4:47 pm

http://annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-119

It has been done before ...

petal · Post by **petal** » Tue May 20, 2003 7:00 pm

hehe

Post by **garyb** » Tue May 20, 2003 9:32 pm

and apple is running the same program.....

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu May 22, 2003 12:36 pm

This is just a natural low, whatever goes up, must go down… whatever goes down, must go up… It’s a natural flow of all enterprices, just look at them through the years to come… NI will go down for a while perhaps, but… just go to up even higher… you can be sure! Remember Emagic, remember Steinberg, remember Microsoft… etc.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri May 23, 2003 3:01 pm

On 2003-05-20 20:00, Petal wrote:
hehe

It's not funny at all. The same is with polititians

petal · Post by **petal** » Fri May 23, 2003 3:58 pm

On 2003-05-23 16:01, samplaire wrote:
On 2003-05-20 20:00, Petal wrote:
hehe
It's not funny at all. The same is with polititians

It was the Link from Immanuels post I was laughing at - nerdy but fun