My guess is that they want the phrase "entire range of Komplete Instruments and Effects" to disappear from google, and therefore public knowledge/memory, as quickly as possible. It's interesting that NI are 404'ing that page rather than redirecting it to the marketing page for Komplete 11 Ultimate. NI have since 404'ed the page that had that marketing statement on it, but you can still see it in google (currently the top result): " KOMPLETE 10 ULTIMATE delivers the entire range of KOMPLETE Instruments and Effects in one uncompromising package." NI's main marketing description for Komplete 10 Ultimate was this:
Up until Komplete 11, that was exactly the meaning that NI applied to the name "Ultimate" (see below), so it is only fair to assume that a majority of customers still have that interpretation in mind. It depends if you interpret "Ultimate" to mean "the last purchase you need to make in the current Komplete generation".
This breaks that definition and furthermore, it now opens the door to NI including further diminished versions of their products as part of the Ultimate Series in future. Why is this important? Because to date the Ultimate Series has been exactly that everything.
I completely understand that this is expensive software that cannot reasonably be included in a relatively low price (€399) upgrade - but be honest: if it's not Ultimate, stop calling it Ultimate. The trimmed ("Essential") versions are not, in any way, Ultimate. I've been looking foward to K11U but have an issue with the Symphony series. So, on principle I skipped a release I would normally otherwise have bought. Fair enough - their business / their strategy but equally as I felt I'd been taken for a mug the last thing I wanted to do was shell out even more money.
I skipped K10U on a point of principle - I bought Session Horns Pro at full price a few weeks before K10U was issued (I obviously had no idea that K10U would be issued soon) and when I asked, NI weren't amenable to any idea of a discount / refund.
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