Re:Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid s...
by kelipso on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:24PM
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You pay a subscription to overclock your RAM?
Re:Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid s...
by dylan604 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @12:39AM
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No, the subscription concept is total bullshit. The previous versions just sold a higher end model with the engine in a higher performance version.
Re:Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid s...
by ryandrake on Saturday August 16, 2025 @08:04PM
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This is more like the manufacturer selling a four set car sold as a two-seater with razor blades in the back seat so you can’t sit there. Then those blades get disabled if you purchase a monthly “sedan subscription”.
Re:Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid s...
by Dylan16807 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:09AM
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> So paying more for the higher model is paying for the software tweaks.
No way. If they were just making the lower model it would not have the same hardware. This was designed as a higher model and then limited, so you're paying for limiter removal.
But even if that was true, it would still be a very obnoxious sales practice. Those tweaks did not take very much effort and would be useful to almost all of their customers. Software tweaks that cost a miniscule percentage of the hardware cost should come with the hardware.
The thing that is confusing people is it was introduced backwards, I’d imagine intentionally. As stated, it reads as if the engine is being crippled. If you fired up the engine, it would not have the max performance without tweaking the timings, but it would still work. So paying more for the higher model is paying for the software tweaks.
It’s not much different from buying a couple of sticks of RAM and then overclocking them to get extra performance. The RAM works as advertised without any tweaks.