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You should really consider a tiered system for paying for the premium level or lower the version needed for reporting. I'm a small miner, I can't pay $170 just to get reporting for a small miner. Have you considered charging per miner for long term stats keeping? I could see paying for the professional version if it had stats, but that's all I'm really interested in. $170 is incredibly steep just for reporting for 1 single miner.
Thanks for your feedback. Pricing can be difficult, as there can always be scenarios where the combination of pricing, feature levels and number of miners doesn't match all expectations. There are a number of fixed editions for Awesome Miner, where the features and number of miners are fixed. The current concept is that either more features or more miners will require a higher edition.One reason why it make sense to let the feature level force a specific edition is that from a technical support point of view, more features results in more support questions - while the difference between 4 or 20 miners typically don't generate more support questions.
Thanks for asking & addressing this question. It's been something I've been considering asking about for a while now as my enjoyment of mining with AM has grown. I understand where you're coming from Patrike w/ respect to running a business and committing to a level of support for your users (which is excellent btw). In the future, I hope there is an opportunity for additional options here for those of us that like mining for the sake of the technology but are not dumping $$$ into 20 GPU/ASICs, at least not in the current environment.
Since you consider feedback posted here in your future decisions, I would like to add my support to the suggestion of a "Hobbyist" edition (maybe priced $65-85 for all features w/ the 4 miner limit of "Standard" edition?). I have two gaming machines, each with a CPU and GPU miner configured for fun. It's too much for me to jump from $35->$170 to get the API/History access I'm interested in leveraging in my scripts as I have no plans to spend additional thousands of $ on further GPUs/ASICs (maybe that changes when things become more profitable again). But I would gladly pay another $50 to enable it with the same 4 miner limit. Perhaps this edition comes with "forum-only" support or something.
