Over $300 for L7 Features? Really?

I currently own all features/datasets from Logos 6 and am not a Logos Now member. I am showing a price of $134.93 for the full Logos 7 feature set if purchased as part of a base package. If I remove the library (books) portion of the base package from my cart and leave only the Logos 7 full feature set, the price increases to $179.91.

The beauty of this is that nothing happened to Logos 6. Logos 6 is the same program it was last week before 7 was introduced.

If someone does not see the value in 7 they will be happy to stick with 6.

Just like when Ford came out with a 2016 model after I bought my 2015.

I am grateful that Faithlife, and Ford for that matter, have not stopped innovating and moving forward.

(I BTW do see the value and that is why I am a "Now" member)

Tony, are you adding on to the Logos5 crossgrade? $300 seems high. I paid $199, not an LN-izer, and crossgraded L6 earlier.

Is it worth it? Judging from how few forumites can answer questions on how to use Logos features, I'd bet limited use is the rule for most.

Or more accurately, a couple features of value per user.

Worth $200-300? I doubt it. But money is only valuable when you don't have it.

David Betts said:

For months I saved toward buying Logos 7 upon release.

I was totally uninterested in "Logos Now," and ignored it until a few days ago.

Having tried Logos Now, I am totally blown away and amazed!

Anything specific that changed your mind?

Tony Thomas said:

I just checked my price for the full Logos 7 feature set.  It is over $300!  And I don't really see much that even interests me.  Am I alone?  

I think I must have paid the very same price. I was on L6 Starter before as well, and decided to upgrade to Bronze now.

I agree, $300 is steep. However, you pay that only once, and the feature set belongs to you for good. The set includes really everything (let me stress e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g), that previously was restricted to Gold/Diamond/Platinum etc. and would have been a lot more expensive (either as part of a very high priced BP, or as a feature crossgrade). In terms of price, I believe the full feature set is a gigantic steal.

Second question: Is it worth the price? Currently, I think yes. Time will tell. I've been going through a couple of the Logos Pro videos recently (prior to L7), and noticed that with the L6 Starter features I could not do quite a lot of the stuff. Many of the features might look uninteresting, but under the hood they enable Logos to do all the cool things that you can see in Logos Pro.

(LN gives you the same features, but then, once you're in the fourth year of subscribing, it already gets more expensive than owning the feature set.)

Tony Thomas said:

Using a car analogy, Logos seems to want to load you up with all kinds of options that you may or may not use.

That's true — but we all want different things. If everyone wanted to pay $10each for the features they wanted, it may be that none of the features would have had enough customers to pay for the development costs. But if we all agree to have everything, and club our resources together, then Logos can make far more tools than they otherwise could. That's the theory anyway, and I'm grateful for the approach (despite being against Logos Now when it launched).

I'm in the same boat.  I currently have Bronze, and was planning to upgrade to Silver this fall.  I'd been watching the prices on Silver, and it had been going up, but was somewhere around $350 or so.  If I'm not mistaken, it used to include the New American Commentary, so it was a pretty significant upgrade in terms of resources.  The new version of Silver does not include the NAC, so it's not as valuable as it used to be, but I suppose they offset that by including the full feature set with almost all base packages.

The new versions are, of course, pretty exciting by virtue of the feature sets, but I'm a lot less excited by what I would now get in the base package libraries.  With the new pricing, I can essentially spend the same amount of money I would have spent on a Silver upgrade under Logos 6, but now I would only get Bronze under Logos 7.  I'm not sure that's a good tradeoff.

So, I'll keep evaluating my options.  Logos Now is tempting, but after 3 years, it becomes a money loser, and quitting after 3 years would leave me with nothing more than I have now.  Still, it's the only option if your budget won't support a base package purchase.  The tough thing is trying to determine if I would really use a lot of the new features.  I'm not very strong in original language study.

$300 is the correct price to upgrade from L6 Starter to L7 Bronze.

[:'(] (but actually it's worth every cent).

Jan Krohn said:

$300 is the correct price to upgrade from L6 Starter to L7 Bronze.

(but actually it's worth every cent).

WOW! Guess I'm a liar! LOL! I just didn't think there could be that much of a difference. I was wrong...[:#]

Tony Thomas said:

[Head spinning violently....]

http://babylonbee.com/news/pastor-takes-second-loan-home-purchase-new-logos-bible-software/

I find Logos Now to be a better deal than purchasing the upgrades. I own all the books, so don't mind paying per month for the features. This is similar to what Microsoft is doing with Office 365, you don't own the software but for a only a few buck a month you will always have the latest version when a new version comes out. You can pay 300 for all the Logos Features now but you won't have any of the new features as they come out and will have to pay another 300 when Logos 8 comes out. But for 9.99 a month or 100 per year you will always have the latest features. 

Really? I still have it per month, so I was grandfathered into it?

Diego Lara said:

Really? I still have it per month, so I was grandfathered into it?

Only until the end of December. Then us monthly subscribers have to make a decision of either cancelling or having it turn into an annual subscription. I would expect an email reminder before that happens but you never know.

Oh ok, well its still worth every penny for $89 a year to get all those great features and anything new that comes out. 

No, you are not alone. 
I find this ridiculous. 
I myself am what I will call a "light user", with "only" 1660 resources; yet, I have spent well over $2000 for this collection of stuff that I have to force myself to make time to figure out how to even use it. It was supposed to be a $400 investment, but, has turned out to be 5-6x that! 
As far as upgrading? NEVER AGAIN! You are correct, in my not so humble opinion, there is not even one resource that I considered buying even separately. Nothing! And to pay ANOTHER $300ish? 
I just wish I could find someone who wants my license. I'd go back to the better $100 software titles. 
Better? How? For one, I could use them. For two, they weren't money hungry (in appearance). You bought their product, and none of this constant barrage of ads, in email, on the home page. I never had to go to settings to tell it to not place ads everywhere. 
I've been with Logos since 2009. I purchased L-3 and now, not even 10 years later, I've seen four MORE versions? That's crazier than Windows! Even greedy MS has taken longer to release 4 upgrades to Windows! 

No, you are definitely not alone. I'm pretty much done with Logos. I understand being in business to make money, but this is ridiculous, and I am wondering what Jesus would do if he were here physically, or if Peter would react similarly to how he spoke to Simon the sorcerer.