...intanto MPCCLUB rimuove Xtreamer dal forum
...durissime le parole di Hi-Jack nei confronti di Xtreamer.
Oggi 18 Gennaio 2010
Xtreamer forums removed from MPC
As promised, we would explain a bit why we decided to remove the Xtreamer forums and have Xtreamer discussions moved to the "generic" discussion in the section "Other realTek based players". The main reason would be that I don't feel Xtreamer / Unicorn / MViX is making any efforts to become a serious brand capable of maintaining a proper relationship with the community (one sided only). Although some might argue this is untrue due to their constant actions and activities, updates and more... I would advice those fans to look at the content of these actions which often are tailored to promote the products, overstate the products, carefully construct statements about their products finesse without facts and stories that can't be considered "lies" nor "truth", abusing the general understanding of people on "green products or open source".
Although we still feel Xtreamer is good bang for buck (for the player, not the NAS), the product on it's own will not last without a firm company policy behind it to cover support and communications, build a future with their customers on a balanced level. There we feel the motherload of partners involved with Xtreamer products is failing 100% (especially Unicorn / MViX but also Xtreamer itself in their attitude). I came to the conclusion that Xtreamer is all about overdoing stuff and not a "stable" brand to recon with or price / value wise so different from other options and the combined release with Unicorn / MViX, known to fail support since long time, only damages our believe further in Xtreamer...
Conflicting messages are what concerns me the most where Xtreamer seems to be created to avoid the bad name Unicorn MViX has made for itself over the years with MViX players and the MBoX NAS, which now seems similar to Xtreamer and the eTrayz NAS. Whilst Xtreamer responded to our concerns on future support, Unicorn has nothing to do with Xtreamer and is just a silent partner, their statements and missions state "Xtreamer.Net was founded with the compelling mission of being a leading provider of comprehensive media center, netbooks and NAS solutions made by or with Unicorn Korea for global market." In addition, when appealing to Unicorn about MViX support updates, their CEO stated "All our resources are working on Xtreamer updates" and those releases are still poor in content in my humble opinion. The combination of these only leads me to be more convinced, unicorn is not capable of supporting MViX products and will likely fail to handle Xtreamer properly, especially there is competition in the lower price region with Mede8er, WDTV2 and the upcoming A-200 solution from Syabas below €200 as far as media players are concerned.
While we don't seek to ban or damage Xtreamer completely in any way, we would like to clearly state such behavior or lies to trigger sales, dubious constructions and pushing behavior as depicted by Xtreamer for the past months is unacceptable to the "real" community. While making overstatements to have people look at the positive side of the products only is part of commercial attitude nowadays for all brands, the way Xtreamer does it is "over the top" and unacceptable. Without going into further details or cause a discussion running up into hundreds of pages between pros and con groups... this is the decision and opinion I made for MPC Club based on my experience and findings on Xtreamer in general and as a result of that decided to minimize the efforts or resources available here on the Xtreamer branch until the brand itself is capable of adding some weight in value next to the weight of "crap" they launch and is able to handling other aspects besides "making sales".
While this might be conflicting with some people believing this reaction is out of line with pro news sites... I remind you, we are not "pros" but regular users, reporting and handling a selection of brands and products we believe deliver most fun at home... This explanation is only a small part of our findings on xtreamer and Unicorn. We welcome anyone to discuss the Xtreamer products in the general forums but expect no major input from MPC officials.
http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22682