Hope For Audigy Owners? Refund Alchemy Cost? New Drive

Hmm... I couldn't help but noticing the "Audigy Alchemy" sticky has gone walkabout.
I also noticed http://us.creative.com/alchemy/welcome.asp . Complete the forum specifying the email address you used to purchase ALchemy For Audigy. The refund will be made to the credit card that was used for the original purchase. Please allow 30 days for the refund to take place. This offer is valid until 30th June.
The ALchemy application is being provided independent of the drivers, as it is not a driver. The new version of the application works with both X-Fi and Audigy products, and we have added additional updates relating to some popular games that behave differently on the X-Fi chipset guru as compared to the Audigy chipset. We would suggest you download the latest version from CREATIVE.COM when it becomes available.
Thank You.
The Soundblaster Team
Well if there's an Alchemy being released for Audigy series, could there be a possibility of * gasp * working Audigy Vista drivers One that provides 5. would be a nice start.
Perhaps I'm hoping for too much..
I am starting to wonder if somebody is finally listening, though.
Message Edited by Catherina-CL on 05-08-2008 10:11 AM

Hi DriverExpires,
That's correct, the original statement regarding this was made in the feedback sticky thread here.
I have made a quick edit to your post to change the link within the pasted statement to the correct link, but have left the link you included too. This way people are directed to the e-mail form instead of the Guru3D thread, so they can put their information through to us for the refund.
If you haven't already been keeping an eye on the thread I linked above, definitely do bookmark or subscribe to it as it's where we'll be posting or linking any updates/info we get for everyone there (so it's easy to keep track of things).
Cat

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That tired old argument?
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