Someone's got a VERY bad Monday ahead

yawnstretch

Hey, something big happening over at Creative if you want to watch careers go down the toilet live on a forum.

Creative get legal with one of the good guys:

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=116332&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

http://digg.com/hardware/Creative_threatens_community_modder

astrofool

Funny, I was just about to post this.

I have the latest version of his audigy drivers for Vista, if anyone wants them (they're 66 megs).

eamon234

Yikes - what was he thinking? I can see this coming up in PR courses everywhere from now on!

TerrorFirmer

What are good alternative sound solutions?

AlmightyCushion

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

What are good alternative sound solutions?

Just through skimming through that thread it seems asus have a range called xonar. There was another one mentioned but I can't remember the name of it.

TerrorFirmer

Yeah but they're brutally expensive, I was thinking more in the budget performance range....sub 80 euro. All there seems to be is low end stuff, like C-Media, Trust, etc, then the mid range solely X-Fi's and Audigys, then at the top is the expensive X-Fi's and Xonar....and the Razer.

conzy

for **** sake.........

I always liked Creative, What a retarded thing to do

"OMG you are making working drivers and providing them to our customers!!!! Stop it!!!"

*edit* haha, their forum is getting hammered, around 5 posts a minute telling them how stupid they are I see you posted too Terror

Sherifu

"Creative just done a kurt cobain -.-" :pac: digg comments

AlmightyCushion

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Yeah but they're brutally expensive, I was thinking more in the budget performance range....sub 80 euro. All there seems to be is low end stuff, like C-Media, Trust, etc, then the mid range solely X-Fi's and Audigys, then at the top is the expensive X-Fi's and Xonar....and the Razer.

I remember seeing a philips sound card not too long ago. Don't know what price it was or what it was like though.

TerrorFirmer

conzymaher wrote: »

for **** sake.........

I always liked Creative, What a retarded thing to do

"OMG you are making working drivers and providing them to our customers!!!! Stop it!!!"

*edit* haha, their forum is getting hammered, around 5 posts a minute telling them how stupid they are I see you posted too Terror

I wouldn't normally do it, and the odd time I would pledge to not supporting something and go ahead and buy it anyway, but this time, it just actually pissed me off and I really will look for another brand next time....

My X-Fi is only the xtreme audio version, I was serious contemplating taking it out, smashing it (with an optional golden shower - or what do you think - a picture of my x-fi half submerged into an unflushed toilet bowl? In a urinal in a public bathroom?) and posting the pictures on the creative forum. Don't have any spares though so...:D

yawnstretch

75,000 views on the first thread page now

AlmightyCushion

45 pages already. I didn't think it was that big. I can only imagine what it'll be like tomorrow evening.

zilog_jones

Did anyone from Creative say anything in that thread besides the first post?

Sherifu

zilog_jones wrote: »

Did anyone from Creative say anything in that thread besides the first post?

The only other one I see is this.

conzy

Not bad for 5 minutes eh?

Sqaull20

Will they apologize/release new drivers pronto?

conzy

Thats what I asked but they havent released drivers in months so why now? Their drivers are working as far as they are concerned

Tar.Aldarion

-1 customer for creative after my vision:m dies.

x keo21

-1 Creative user.
I have just posted in that thread and have vented my anger.

Sticky this thread, asap warning people of the stupidity and mediocrity of Creative Labs, and how they should avoid ALL products of this doomed empire


Edit
''Someone's got a VERY bad Monday ahead'' couldn't of put it better myself

Sherifu

*Awaits raft of creative fail pics*

x keo21

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182389&page=4&highlight=creative
Looks like they were already heading for bankruptcy :0
I wonder what there stocks will be like now

Bye bye creative looks like we wont need that sticky after all

Beelzebub

I'm sticking with my integrated Realtek audio.

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/ASUS_Xonar_D2_Ultra_Fidelity_71_PCI_Sound_Card/?page=7

im...LOST

They are allowing the drivers to continue now. A bit late....

Sherifu

im...LOST wrote: »

They are allowing the drivers to continue now. A bit late....

lol

conzy

Only the Audigy ones....

PogMoThoin

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

What are good alternative sound solutions?

:rolleyes: From what I've read Auzentech are a good alternative. Full Vista support.
Edit: just read that it uses a Creative chip & driver, meh

I've been reading this on XS forums. Its the fact that he was looking for donations thats annoyed Creative. Why don't Creative just employ him, he's doing a better job than their team of a$$holes.

Tar.Aldarion

im...LOST wrote: »

They are allowing the drivers to continue now. A bit late....

link to post?

Overheal

i feel dirty now with creative 2.0 speakers. thank god for realtek drivers though.

clearance sale on sound cards though

Tar.Aldarion

lol...

bren50c

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

link to post?

Third post from top of this page:

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&thread.id=30737&page=6

Sherifu

bren50c wrote: »

Third post from top of this page:

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&thread.id=30737&page=6

lmao, they're feeling the burn.

conzy

conzy

bren50c wrote: »

Third post from top of this page:

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&thread.id=30737&page=6

Thats only for Audigy Cards, still no X-Fi Drivers

Tar.Aldarion

Yeah, they are still not allowing it for the most part, those drivers don't provide extra functionality, ju xp capabilities on vista.

PogMoThoin

The drivers are on the torrent sites, do Creative just think they'll go away. I actually had never heard of these drivers until this. Downloadin as we speak

papu

yeah , there are vista drivers for x-fi's , they have the basic 3 different presets , game , entertainment and somthing else but other than that its pretty limited

fu creative.

PogMoThoin

Ya, not half the features of Xp, I miss some of them.

Slow torrent :mad: 2 many leechers, wanna try it out

Thomas_S_Hunterson

lol Classic.

I wonder what their share price will be tomorrow.

colly10

They've pretty much shot themselves in the foot, thats pretty much declaring war on your own customers. Well over 1000 posts on the site now and links from everywhere. Hope it ruins the company, cant believe they'd be so stuipid

Capt'n Midnight

tomorrow will tell if this is genuine.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=116332&view=by_date_ascending&page=122

To Whom it May Concern:


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.



Thank you,

Newegg.com
http://www.newegg.com

Ghost Train

will be interesting to see the value of creative shares tomorrow and if theres much of a drop

Jim

Ah, the power of the internet.

Angry nerds ftw.

bogwalrus

whats a good website to look at the creative stock value/shares go down???

x keo21

try yahoo finance,

JIZZLORD

people still use yahoo?

x keo21

hahah i found there financial update, going bust quite quickly , check the Net income on bottom of page 5 comparing 2006 to 2007.
Earnings per share is only 9 cent last year compared to 1.10 2 years ago
oopshttp://www.creative.com/corporate/investor/files/ER/Q2FY08_Earnings_Release.pdf
check the Sales also there going down seriously from 2006.

EDIT: btw this was only a quick glance over the financial statement, there could be perfectly acceptable reasons why the figures have fallen

L31mr0d

where can I get daniel_k's drivers? are they only on torrent?

In fairness, creative where right. If anyone actually reads the thread, creative had no problem letting daniel_k modify the drivers, but they took exception to him profiting from it. He was taking their intellectual property, modifying it then asking for donations. daniel_k was in the wrong in asking for money to sell someone else software. Also, creative had enabled features that where meant for the XFI only, daniel_k enabled them for the audigy class of soundcards which is wasn't meant for.

That is not to say that creative handled this matter well either. In the age of web 2.0 creative should of known that any open statement against opensource or freedom of code would spread like wildfire across the internet. If I was creative I would of contacted daniel_k and told him to take down the donation links and maybe hire him to work for creative.

x keo21

JIZZLORD wrote: »

people still use yahoo?

Jez who cares where you get the info from?
Fine use msn then
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?D4=1&ViewType=0&&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&ComparisonsForm=1&CP=0&PT=5&CE=0&D5=0&3=0&PeriodType=5&Symbol=CREAF&C9=0&DisplayForm=1

Soundman

I find it strange that they are starting to create products for the competition, iPod. They must be realising that they are starting to struggle and are reaching out in any direction to keep the money coming in...

Sherifu

lmao @ the newegg post. Hope that's real. Angry nerds indeed.

Overheal

I wonder is getting into the mp3 market is what killed them.