Announcing the Presale Event for vBulletin 4.0 Suite and Important License Changes

We hope your community is enjoying the flexibility and power of vBulletin™. As always, our goal is to offer a great product at a great price, and we are dedicated to helping you build and grow successful online communities.

Over the last 12 months, we have been building vBulletin 4.0 to be the most powerful forum and social publishing software. Today, we are proud to introduce the new vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite product that includes the power of the vBulletin 4.0 Forums with a seamlessly integrated content management system (CMS) and blogging platform.

As a preferred customer with an active license, we are excited to offer the vBulletin Publishing Suite at a pre-sale discount price of only $130 (over 50% off regular price). This is a truly limited one-time special offer giving you $120 off the upgrade price but will expire on Friday October 30, 2009.

Learn more about vBulletin Publishing Suite features and pricing on our new website: http://www.vbulletin.com/

Beginning today, we are introducing new a license structure. vBulletin is changing to a one-time owned license fee for each major point release. That means no more annual renewal fees. Once you purchase a major point version, you’ll receive maintenance, security and minor point releases for the life of 4.x.

You have the option to keep your current active license until it expires (according to the 12 month term and conditions). For the remainder of your active license, you will continue to receive support and have access to forum software updates, including vBulletin 4.0 Forums. Once your license expires you will only be able to access the 4 Series software updates by switching to the new one-time owned license. For more information, visit the vBulletin FAQ.

Over the last 10 years, our products have offered an exceptional value and we look forward to bringing you the best and keeping you as a loyal customer. Our team is expanding in number and expertise in order to develop more innovative features and to deliver them faster. We are investing in exciting development areas such as new products and services for 'Big Boards' and mobile applications and look forward to helping you grow your community.

Sincerely,

The vBulletin Team


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Ain't buying anything without a demo & screenshots. What they think this is anyway?
They still running 3.8.4 forum software yet they selling 4.0....

What a load of crap!

No matter wht, in the end staying with vBulletin so its loads of crap or whtever have to live with it :P

So I will get it hopefully it will be good.

Originally Posted by UnderEstimated

No matter wht, in the end staying with vBulletin so its loads of crap or whtever have to live with it :P

So I will get it hopefully it will be good.

Pretty much.

Vbulletin's new licensing structure is like them giving the two fingers to their existing clients

Not happy!

I'm not happy with it...only because money is a slight issue at the moment with site upgrades such as servers...and the fact I have to change the blogs over...but I'm interested to see what will happen now.

it will include friendly url's...

I know I'll eventually switch over so I bought it today.

I'm 90% sure I'll be dropping the vBulletin blog

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

I'm 90% sure I'll be dropping the vBulletin blog

Then that'll leave you paying a premium for the CMS *only* (if you intend to upgrade to the suite).

Originally Posted by EGS

Ain't buying anything without a demo & screenshots.

Screenshots here: Purchase vBulletin, the most powerful forum software available.

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

Screenshots here: Purchase vBulletin, the most powerful forum software available.

Screenshots aren't reality

Someone can do lovely mockups in Photoshop. It doesn't mean that the finished product will look or work that way

I wasn't happy about the new pricing setup, but I'm slowly coming around (assuming the reply to my latest support ticket is along the same lines as their first reply).

I don't begrudge paying to upgrade old licences (although I did upgrade to blogs on one of them hopeing those with 1 addon got a better discount). It was the brand new licence I bought a couple of weeks ago in readiness of vB4 that was a kick in the teeth (which I'm think is going to be sorted by vB).

Now everything is out in the open and prices are fixed etc I'm looking forward to the new release

Im not happy about the vbblogs situation either, as it seems those who already have vbblogs are having to pay for it twice..

More to the point though, will vbseo still work with vb4 as it has added seo features? or is there going to be an update that will work with vb4 and is that going to cost aswell?

Originally Posted by Big-Pete

Im not happy about the vbblogs situation either, as it seems those who already have vbblogs are having to pay for it twice..

More to the point though, will vbseo still work with vb4 as it has added seo features? or is there going to be an update that will work with vb4 and is that going to cost aswell?

My view as well...