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Great. Now, please listen carefully. Do not fuck up Affinity. It’s absolutely fantastic software with a great purchasing model. Do NOT turn this into a subscrip

Great. Now, please listen carefully. Do not fuck up Affinity. It’s absolutely fantastic software with a great purchasing model. Do NOT turn this into a subscription. For the love of god.

dean2432 3y ago
Affinity as we know it is already dead. Canva is all about profit. Subscription model will be most likely be introduced in the next major version.
bun_terminator 3y ago
Is it a "great" purchasing model because it's cheap for you, or why?
- moi2388 3y ago
  Because I pay once, and I own it. For life. I don’t care if it’s 50 bucks or 500. I don’t want to pay for your shitty subscriptions. I do not want to have an account, I do not want to have to have an internet connection just to use software that I paid for.
- viraptor 3y ago
  You can buy it and keep using it, no strings attached. No monthly payments or artificial restrictions.
  - bun_terminator 3y ago
    I'm aware. I was just trying to challenge the mantra of saas=bad because one-time payments are just cheaper for the user. Because the other side of the coin is that it's less money for the dev. So it's not that easy if you look at the whole picture.
    - viraptor 3y ago
      They did well so far. It's healthy to challenge the idea that things need to keep expanding forever. Another great project like that is http://reaper.fm/ http://reaper.fm/ and I hope they'll never move from the "pay once for current and current+1 version" which is both providing future income and is not a subscription.
      - bun_terminator 3y ago
        I did actually buy reaper. And I like it because it's not expensive. But I would have probably paid for a subscription, and kept it far too long, making them more money. I like the idealistic "not all things need to grow" mindset, just wanted to shine a light that most things don't work that way.
    - TheNewsIsHere 3y ago
      > I was just trying to challenge the mantra of saas=bad because one-time payments are just cheaper for the user. You hit the nail on the head. Affinity isn’t a SaaS service. It’s a licensed software product sold by major version. Although the corporate world seems to have left the product/service distinction behind, most _people_ haven’t (and accountants certainly haven’t).
rpgbr 3y ago
From Affinity's site[1]: >Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold? > >There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time, with all our apps still available as a one-off purchase. Existing Affinity users will be able to continue to use your apps in perpetuity as they were originally purchased – with plenty of free updates to V2 still to look forward to! I guess the keywords are “at this time”. [1] https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-statement/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-statem...
- esperent 3y ago
  There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time... ...but since there's nothing stopping us, we will definitely do it later once the publicity of the acquisition has died down. Like, next year probably.
- wooly_bully 3y ago
  The wording virtually guarantees that it’s changing to subscription. I give it a year and a half.

Great. Now, please listen carefully. Do not fuck up Affinity. It’s absolutely fantastic software with a great purchasing model. Do NOT turn this into a subscription. For the love of god.

dean2432 3y ago

Affinity as we know it is already dead. Canva is all about profit. Subscription model will be most likely be introduced in the next major version.

bun_terminator 3y ago

Is it a "great" purchasing model because it's cheap for you, or why?

moi2388 3y ago
Because I pay once, and I own it. For life. I don’t care if it’s 50 bucks or 500. I don’t want to pay for your shitty subscriptions. I do not want to have an account, I do not want to have to have an internet connection just to use software that I paid for.
viraptor 3y ago
You can buy it and keep using it, no strings attached. No monthly payments or artificial restrictions.
- bun_terminator 3y ago
  I'm aware. I was just trying to challenge the mantra of saas=bad because one-time payments are just cheaper for the user. Because the other side of the coin is that it's less money for the dev. So it's not that easy if you look at the whole picture.
  - viraptor 3y ago
    They did well so far. It's healthy to challenge the idea that things need to keep expanding forever. Another great project like that is http://reaper.fm/ http://reaper.fm/ and I hope they'll never move from the "pay once for current and current+1 version" which is both providing future income and is not a subscription.
    - bun_terminator 3y ago
      I did actually buy reaper. And I like it because it's not expensive. But I would have probably paid for a subscription, and kept it far too long, making them more money. I like the idealistic "not all things need to grow" mindset, just wanted to shine a light that most things don't work that way.
  - TheNewsIsHere 3y ago
    > I was just trying to challenge the mantra of saas=bad because one-time payments are just cheaper for the user. You hit the nail on the head. Affinity isn’t a SaaS service. It’s a licensed software product sold by major version. Although the corporate world seems to have left the product/service distinction behind, most _people_ haven’t (and accountants certainly haven’t).

rpgbr 3y ago

From Affinity's site[1]: >Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold? > >There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time, with all our apps still available as a one-off purchase. Existing Affinity users will be able to continue to use your apps in perpetuity as they were originally purchased – with plenty of free updates to V2 still to look forward to! I guess the keywords are “at this time”. [1] https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-statement/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-statem...

esperent 3y ago
There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time... ...but since there's nothing stopping us, we will definitely do it later once the publicity of the acquisition has died down. Like, next year probably.
wooly_bully 3y ago
The wording virtually guarantees that it’s changing to subscription. I give it a year and a half.