In case its not clear, you need to pay 0.5 ETH = $335 to do anything useful. I'll pass.
If you do not find the global set useful, or making your last settings default or taking care of crossfire/ulps/compute every time you reset etc.etc. then please continue setting each card one at a time, get 10 rpm fan drop on full load not see your gpu stats etc.etc., or download QMS and use these time=ETH saving functions for free.
The membership fee is for all VGA Dev. now and in the future there is nothing more to pay,
We are not vampires bleeding people slowly with dev. fees, download fees, charging for every Dev. etc, but this is a pooled effort to advance mining software and drivers for Vega miners and funds are needed for public development.
We are currently coding a super fast miner +25% hashes to embed on QMS at 0fee with 0fee pools for VGA members, by that time i can assure the ITO price of 0.5ETH will be a distant dream.
VGA tech will become more and more needed until the point where we replace AMD shitty generic drivers all together with the new VGA compute drivers and it will cost you a lot more than a 0.5ETH to join VGA at that point.
Ask the people who joined VGA at the introductory pre-ITO special offer 2 months ago for 0.1ETH when VGA was just a site and a promise, they also took a gamble on just words and now they are enjoying the full use of QMS at a fifth of the ITO price (ps at that time ETH was $400) and 5 fold gain on their VGA investment.
Pass now all you want while enjoying the free QMS features, but dont cry later when you have to pay 5ETH or 50ETH to get the speeds, ease and user designed inovations.
Did I mention 0fee VGA super fast miner and 0fee VGA pools coming in 2.5months?
Add all the Eth you save from time wasting, faster speeds, 0 fee mining plus whatever the futrure holds, over your mining lifetime, i think you will get that 0.5ETH back in multitudes
So no, 0.5ETH is not a lot to ask, for a lifetime of advances, we believe
pass now, see you later, bring more ETH next time
VT
ps you could wait until ETH goes down to $400 again then it might feel cheaper to you, but VGA will be traded in the open markets by then and not price controlled as it is now.