It sounds more like you'll be able to buy a license for 2.0 when it releases, but your license only qualifies for stability updates unless you pay for a subscription (either the annual pass or the monthly sub.) If you don't buy a pass, you revert back to the 1.x They won't be selling 2.0 as a perpetual version until 3.0 comes out. But personally, it's too emotionally charged for me to dive into. The strange announcement timing makes me think they're checking for sentiment though, so it's better for us if people overreacted than under. Or even just have a sane version-freezing setup. They could've just said something like "we're releasing a new paid version every 2 or 3 years" and asked for the same money and people might have been perfectly happy. Surely the handful of illustration and comics professionals who are willing to pay for something that earns them money, isn't worth the loss of the majority of their paying users recommending them to future users. Instead it's just the abstract idea that they'll pay more in the future for nothing. You'd think they'd expect people to be a bit more agreeable with it if they saw what they'd be paying for by announcing the new features together. And even if subscribing for 2 or 3 years costs the same as a perpetual license that has the updates for free, it blocks out the people who just don't have the means to subscribe, and people who just don't want the psychological weight of a subscription. Nobody's eager to add another subscription. The problems are that they're doing this as if the whole world isn't in the middle of a recession. 'cause there are plenty of other, better subscribe-to-own plans out there that people are perfectly happy with. The snarky one-liners on social media are kind of gaining too much outrage-steam, which should have its practical perks as far as getting the message across and maybe getting them to come up with a better plan. ![]() And we'll dangle new features in front of you a lot though." Here's an version that will never get new features.
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