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I've been using Affinity products forever, in fact since before the Affinity era, then they were branded Serif (DrawPlus, PhotoPlus, etc)... They have been incr

I've been using Affinity products forever, in fact since before the Affinity era, then they were branded Serif (DrawPlus, PhotoPlus, etc)... They have been incredibly consistent over the years with the quality of their products, which is why I have purchased many licenses over the years and always recommended people to look into their software... Like others in the thread, I really do hope they don't change to subscription-based pricing, but I assume the worst.

ramijames 3y ago
It really seems that the whole software world has decided to move to monthly payments. It really irks me. I don't want this.
- bogota 3y ago
  Have to extract the most value for shareholders. Only way i see it changing is people start stealing software because they get sick of it or people stop using subscription based licenses all together.
  - andy_ppp 3y ago
    I absolutely hate it too. I think we all need a subscriptions manager. Adobe for example were charging me $15 per month for Lightroom forever and Lightroom had broken and deleted all my photos years before. I think there was a problem with their software because I did not have a subscription that I could see when I logged in to any of the accounts I had. I just gave up at some point trying to cancel (I'd even talked with their chat for several hours). But recently logged in and managed to finally see the hidden subscription! It was still difficult to cancel but at least I could actually do it! Hard to know what to do apart from take Adobe to the small claims court about this.
    - a2800276 3y ago
      Registered mail to Adobe?
  - mort96 3y ago
    No, you don't "have to" extract the most value for shareholders. In fact, you don't "have to" have shareholders at all.
- kossTKR 3y ago
  Even worse many apps now push "Monthly payments (payed yearly)", like some scammy car salesman. You can try for 7 days, then don't worry we'll charge for 12 months. Ridiculous for solo devs, full stack, creatives with lots of apps etc. I use several apps a bit here and there throughout the year but that's seemingly not a usecase for these companies, you're either "in" 365 or won't be able to use the app.
- rchaud 3y ago
  Increasingly I'm looking at hoarding "feature-complete" applications that work fine totally offline and don't need updates. Things like text editors, GIMP, Inkscape, Foobar2000, IrfanView, file manager apps.
_fat_santa 3y ago
Pure speculation on my part but I think the way it will go down is Canva will announce that you can get access to Affinity products via a Canva subscription, with an option to buy the individual products outright like today. They have to be looking at Adobe and going "yeah we don't want that kind of reputation".
- mdekkers 3y ago
  > They have to be looking at Adobe and going "yeah we don't want that kind of reputation". They can also look at the market and Adobe and go “yeah, they have no alternatives, everyone is a subscriber now”
  - curiousigor 3y ago
    Yup, that's also my assumption of what will happen. Ugh...

ramijames 3y ago

It really seems that the whole software world has decided to move to monthly payments. It really irks me. I don't want this.

bogota 3y ago
Have to extract the most value for shareholders. Only way i see it changing is people start stealing software because they get sick of it or people stop using subscription based licenses all together.
- andy_ppp 3y ago
  I absolutely hate it too. I think we all need a subscriptions manager. Adobe for example were charging me $15 per month for Lightroom forever and Lightroom had broken and deleted all my photos years before. I think there was a problem with their software because I did not have a subscription that I could see when I logged in to any of the accounts I had. I just gave up at some point trying to cancel (I'd even talked with their chat for several hours). But recently logged in and managed to finally see the hidden subscription! It was still difficult to cancel but at least I could actually do it! Hard to know what to do apart from take Adobe to the small claims court about this.
  - a2800276 3y ago
    Registered mail to Adobe?
- mort96 3y ago
  No, you don't "have to" extract the most value for shareholders. In fact, you don't "have to" have shareholders at all.
kossTKR 3y ago
Even worse many apps now push "Monthly payments (payed yearly)", like some scammy car salesman. You can try for 7 days, then don't worry we'll charge for 12 months. Ridiculous for solo devs, full stack, creatives with lots of apps etc. I use several apps a bit here and there throughout the year but that's seemingly not a usecase for these companies, you're either "in" 365 or won't be able to use the app.
rchaud 3y ago
Increasingly I'm looking at hoarding "feature-complete" applications that work fine totally offline and don't need updates. Things like text editors, GIMP, Inkscape, Foobar2000, IrfanView, file manager apps.

_fat_santa 3y ago

Pure speculation on my part but I think the way it will go down is Canva will announce that you can get access to Affinity products via a Canva subscription, with an option to buy the individual products outright like today. They have to be looking at Adobe and going "yeah we don't want that kind of reputation".

mdekkers 3y ago
> They have to be looking at Adobe and going "yeah we don't want that kind of reputation". They can also look at the market and Adobe and go “yeah, they have no alternatives, everyone is a subscriber now”
- curiousigor 3y ago
  Yup, that's also my assumption of what will happen. Ugh...