Acquisition 2

Okay, what's up with this? He says it's $24.00, and when you go to pay with paypal, it turns out it's nearly $200 (about the same price as Dreamweaver), when the CAD-->USD exchange rate is almost 1:1. WTF?

Yeouch, I suggest that even if you have this program already that you wait until some kinks are worked out. If you're trying it for the first time, try to get the old version. The new auto-search stuff is ridiculously annoying, and the previous version seems to do a lot better job of finding files.

I know why you thought it was a BitTorrent client: because the developer advertised it as such before he made Xtorrent. I bought Acquisition because it was the most Mac like BT client at the time and the developer said he would be adding more BT specific features. I mostly thought of the P2P features as icing since Poisoned was better (and probably still is). Of course he has barely even touched Acquisition since then (until now) and he made Xtorrent. Because of this I feel like DW basically just took my money and ran with it.

DW makes some nice software but his customer support is non-existent. I have emailed him multiple times about crashing issues with NewsFire but have never received a reply and the issues still exist.

Thats bullshit that I cant at least upgrade from version 1.0. Hell, I bought it and barely even used it. I'd probably pay 5 - 10 bucks to upgrade just to have the latest, but really anyone is better off going with Azureus right now. Its fast, stable, and has features for everything. Its Java and ugly, but thats fine. Plus uTorrent will eventually come to the mac, and you can't beat it.

Either way, its crap like this that makes me think twice about registering for any mac shareware. If someone buys your software, at least give them a reasonably priced upgrade path for the next version.

There is a mistake in your correction.

Acquisition is mostly a gnutella client, but it also has the capability to download torrents, although the same developper makes a dedicated bittorent client as well.

bittorent and gnutella are BOTH P2P networks.

gnutella is a bit older, spammed, and is not that good for large files.
bittorent is not bad at all, but could be a lot better.

are u even using those programs, i'm surprised to see 2 mistakes like that in one article.

i love acquisition, but asking money for a program that is used to do something illegal is a bit strange.

but, i'm strange, and i would pay for it, if i wasn't one of the 80% o europeans that can't buy something over the internet because we don't have credit cards.

STUPID !

why don't they allow payment by SMS ? wake up, the USA is not the center of the world !

I bought the 1st rev of this program some time ago but was dissppointed as it didn't offer any form of speed limiting at certain times of the day (some UK USPs ask us to limit torrents during peak periods).

Transmission did this out of the box so I gave up on it. I'm assuming this new version might address that, but I couldn't see any price reduction for original customers, or did I miss something?

alenm88: I paid for the lifetime upgrades option before 2.0 came out. I just got the email on Sunday (the same day as the release) with my new serial number. As long as you paid for the lifetime upgrades before Sunday, you should also be getting a serial number for your free upgrade. If you didn't get it yet, there is now a way to have the serial number resent. Simply enter the email address you used to make the purchase at:

http://www.acquisitionp2p.com/code.php

Also, why would the lifetime upgrades option still include 2.0 when that is the current version? The upgrades option applies to future updates at the time you buy it. So, if you didn't buy it before Sunday, it no longer applies to 2.0. It will apply to 3.0 and so on.

Wow...I've never seen such vitriol towards any developer before @ TUAW. I'm using Acquisition and will NOT be upgrading based on the 30+ negative comments left above.

You'd think the developer would show up to defend himself on such a high-profile Mac info source. His silence speaks volumes about his feelings towards paying customers.

Frostwire and Transmission are the products I'm now going to be using. Thanks to everyone for posting alternatives!

i have also had problems with Watanabe.... he even insulted me.


And for god sake! i paid for life-time upgrades and now they are saying me that doesnt apply for 2.0.. WTF!

This is th descriptions in David´s WEbsite on the Life-time upgrade option.

"All major upgrades of Acquisition in the future (eg. 3.0, 4.0, etc...) are totally free with this option. You'll be set for life!"

Yeah Sure..

@25-Mark S
Frostwire is a 'rebellious' implementation of the limewire source code. Basically limewire pro(do they still have pro? i havent used gnutella in a while) without any search limitations(photoshop etc...)