Life Expectancy, and users thoughts?
 

I have vb 3.7.something licenses and recently some members of my old forums expressed a desire to get them kicking again.

Now I show up to look at renewal costs and experienced sticker shock. After gaining understanding of how the new licenses work, I may not be SO upset depending on how long this new sticker actually covers. For the life of the 4.0 product, ok, so how long is the life expectancy of the 4.0 product? Should I expect to cough up that much money every year? Or is it going to even out in the long run? Does that mean anything that starts with 4, or am I out the second it jumps to 4.1?

I'll high tail it out of here if the average cost for a forum that makes me literally no money is going to triple.

Also, I saw some pretty negative feedback about the software. Is this a few random issues, or a perpetual issue that is not being resolved?

I have loved vb, and now I'm very, very hesitant to put my money in to it again.

From VB I'd like an idea how far my money is going to carry me, from the users I'd really like your honest opinion if this is a worthy investment of said money.

Thanks in advance!