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I was recommended Affinity on here a while back as a one-time-payment alternative to Adobe subscription based photoshop/publisher.
I haven't used Canva in a while, but I remember disliking their interface and pricing schemes. Am I right to think that this change is a bad thing for Affinity users?
hmm :/
They don't say anything about pricing / plans. If I'm going to be forced into a subscription anyways, then I might as well use adobe's stuff
Just bought Designer a week ago. Wouldn't have touched it had it been a subscription. I love it so far but it will be my last purchase of any Affinity software if they move to a subscription.
Id contact them if i were you, asking for clarification and possibly a refund.
I've sent them an email, not too hopeful I'll get any information out of them about their pricing model going forward though.
Edit: They replied but they just gave a copy and pasted statement from the press release that Designer V2 users will own in perpetuity, nothing regarding future plans.
I too wrote to them. This is their reply
That's certainly a more hopeful response. Fingers crossed they keep to their word with V3 too.
I can tell you my first reaction sure as hell wasn't "sweet, now I can hook my photo editor into some online bullshit".
They have an FAQ that says they're keeping the same model and plan to continue to develop v2. How long that lasts, though?
No plans “at this time”. So next week I’m guessing lmao
Pretty much how I feel. I was OK with the transition to v2 because I thought the upgrade path was reasonable, but I feel like at some point I'm going to get screwed now.
Though without updates the current version should be fine for me for the foreseeable future,
I wonder if they recognize that "not a subscription" is a huge part of Affinity's market position though.
If you're going to force a subscription, why wouldn't I just use photoshop?
Maybe they want to compete with the price per subscription: let's say they want to charge 5 € per month for Photo, Design and Publisher each, against 26 € for Photoshop (alone).
Maybe.
Wouldn't make a difference to me though. If you go to a subscription, I'm leaving, and with a lot of bad blood.
The FAQ is very deliberately worded in that nothing changes now, but offers no reassurance for the future. V2 will stay the same, but V3, or whatever they decide to call it at that point, could very well be subscription based.
Affinity refused to make Linux ports. That alone killed them for me.
full port would have been great but i would have been already very happy if they at least tried to make it run somewhat ok via wine.
Canva had a great UI just a few years ago, but they've simplified it a lot to the point that it's just hard to use now.