Creative silently trying to drop support for some X-FI products?

I intended to look for any updates on their support page but to my surprise the X-FI Platinum (yes, the one with hardware decoding of various 5. formats) was not listed anymore. Though I found it through: 'If your product is not listed above, please click here.' at the very bottom. So we got an official Windows 7 driver with this, and other cards, that increases shutdown time with up to 5 minutes for 9 months, and now this? I am close to being speechless.
So just to be clear here, I am not saying they are, I am saying what it starting to point towards. It doesn't inspire confidence or quality at all and on top of the last few years it's just too much. Sadly Creative seems to think they don't want customers that know how things work. We're too much trouble and not easy enough cashcows? But the only thing we want is are bug fixed and stable working drivers in operating system Creative has announced to support. Granted I understand that this may not be easy, but don't announce support for products you cannot get to work 00% your selfs.
Thank you for the efforts Creative, but it's fallen short and only almost working so far in Vista and W7. I don't see how anyone should buy your products with the quality (I've tested a few things more then just your sounds cards) you're aiming for if this is Creatives answer to it's consumers.

JCOnline wrote:
SandwichTime wrote:
JCOnline wrote:
Well said.
I'm sick and tired of Creative. No response - no new drivers - nothing but silence. Maybe it's time to get the media on this. Maybe that will force Creative to come with some sort of statement about their lack of support.
I can think of several news media that might find this situation very interesting!.
Unfortunately, I don't think even media attention can move Creative to do anything about anything except make more hollow promises.
Remember all the media attention surrounding the Daniel_k incident in March/April 2008 It woke Creative up for a little bit, they made a bunch of vague promises, and now they are back to sleep again.
Guess you're right but it seems like a much bigger story than the Daniel incident.
The Daniel_K incident wasn't solely about Creative stepping on a community driver modder, it was also about the years of neglect Creative had towards their sound card users. Those years of neglect had the effect of building a silent anger towards Creative amongst it's user base, we were all ready to blow, we just needed a spark. The letter from Creative to Daniel K was that spark.
Sort of like how WW started...

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