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14 Surefire Ways to Annoy Users

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Deozaan:
Here's another:


* Tell potential/new users that if you are familiar with another program you'll have no problem using theirs, and then provide poor documentation and broken tutorials in the demo version, promising tons of great documentation and tutorials (that supposedly work) to users who buy the product, which the minimum cost is $100 but ranges up to $1250 depending on the license!

zridling:
Here's one:

* Allow a user to buy version 3.8, and then release 4.0 a couple of months later. Tell same user that they'll have to pay the full upgrade price if they want to move to the new version.

f0dder:

* Make changes to our file associations in the registry that don't revert when we un-install.-Edvard (April 17, 2007, 11:48 AM)
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And take over filetype associations that are already set... Visual Studio, this means you!

Here's mine:

* Add a lot of copy-protection that only gets in the legitimate end-users way, while quickly being defeated by pirates.
* Treat legitimate customers as if they were pirates.

Eóin:
Another:

* Make changes to the shell context menu without asking the user first or without providing an easy means to undo the changes.This is fun :)

zridling:

* Automatically check that stupid "Install Yahoo Toolbar" option/step during installation. (Just having that crap in an installation pisses on my weed.)

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