Goodbye from a 20-ish year user of Sound Blaster Cards

Today I removed my sound blaster card from my PC. This is the first time since I was brought a sound blaster Ver .0 in 990-ish that I have not had a Sound Blaster card in my main performance / gaming PC. I have had a Sound blaster V .0, V 2.0, PRO 6, AWE64, Li've! and an Audigy 4. I only did not get an XFI, as I was waiting for the PCI-E version and by the time it arri'ved I was already contemplating the action I took today, so did not bother to pick one up.
Why did I remove it. Well none of the games I am playing and none of the games that are coming down the pipe (as far as I can tell) deri've any advantage from there being any type of sound blaster card on board. Also I wanted to not have down sampled audio when watching Blu-ray movies. My motherboards on-board sound card provides a protected sound path so supports this functionality.
Until recently needing a sound blaster card on-board especially for games (my number factor), was a no-brainer. But with the death of EAX and hardly any take up of openal in recent games a motherboard on-board solution offers that same level of performance, in fact better in some scenarios.
I think this is a shame and that Creative could have done more to combat this. But it seems to me that soundcards are no longer that important to Creative anymore, now that they have moved into audio players and other devices. There has arguably not been a new architecture since the XFI's release in 2005 (I don't consider the move to PCI-E to be a new card or architecture).
So thanks for the memories Sound Blaster and I hope we cross paths in the future, but for now with much regret it is au revoir.

: Same here. Well, not exactly the same ...
In all my computers I've been using SB cards for 5 or 20 years, one of them having an extra Turtle Beach card which is the only exception. I also bought Creative speakers (incl. Cambridge Soundworks), headphones and other stuff. I'm still using 5 or 6 computers all with Creative cards (mainly Audigy2) on a regular basis, everything is still working fine. In fact, I used to be happy with Creative products ?...
... until I got my latest PC.
I ordered an extra X-Fi extreme audio in addition to the the built-in Realtek sound chip - for two reasons: supposed better sound quality and the Media Source software pack that usually comes with the SB cards. I've always been using the Media Source Player for instant recordings ... and I saved the sound files as MP3 (now you see where I'm getting to ...)
I learnt that now Creative wants to make me purchase an extra mp3 audio pack for the new media source player, $ 9.90 (which is just a few Euros in my part of the world ?), just to get the same functionality that my older media source players had. Extra payment for the most important sound format of our times?
No. I've decided to stop buying Creative products. Just because of this simple rip-off. I will never again buy anything with Creative (or Cambridge Soundworks) label.
Surprisingly enough, I'm more than happy with my brand new Logitech speakers ... the first purchase after I discovered the missing mp3 functionality of the latest Creative player.
Honestly, I doubt that this policy will pay off in the end ...
(this is just a customer feedback - I know that Creative doesn't care if they lose one customer)

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