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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Oh no! There’s a hook in that worm!
on: December 06, 2022, 12:26:42 AM
It looks like you took the subscription bait Apple has been trying to hook all their developers with.
I read your update note. :-(
This model is not liked by many users. In fact, every time a developer falls into the subscription trap, I look for all possible ways to avoid their applications. I appreciate you allowing your longtime faithful customers to continue with their lifetime license for Artstudio Pro, however, I hope you will reconsider and eliminate the subscription business model. I also noticed your price will be going up to $39.99 for the new lifetime license. Maybe that price is fair, however, Affinity now has a full suite, and each of their individual apps cost $11.99 (x3 = $35.97 lifetime.)
I would be extremely supportive of an upgrade business model. (ie. new purchase for major updates/versions.) similar to what you did going from ArtStudio to Artstudio Pro.
I have been supporting and using ArtStudio and Artstudio Pro for many years on both the iPad and Mac. I hope you will reconsider your choices.
Sincerely,
— Not A Software Tenant.
P.S. I am not trying to be negative in this post. I totally appreciate all of your hard work and I am willing to support you and your product but I cannot support another company or app that moves to the subscription model. (I understand you are offering both subscription and perpetual licenses) but this is a huge scary foot in the door to a terrible business model. This is exactly why I left Adobe and Autodesk behind.
I read your update note. :-(
This model is not liked by many users. In fact, every time a developer falls into the subscription trap, I look for all possible ways to avoid their applications. I appreciate you allowing your longtime faithful customers to continue with their lifetime license for Artstudio Pro, however, I hope you will reconsider and eliminate the subscription business model. I also noticed your price will be going up to $39.99 for the new lifetime license. Maybe that price is fair, however, Affinity now has a full suite, and each of their individual apps cost $11.99 (x3 = $35.97 lifetime.)
I would be extremely supportive of an upgrade business model. (ie. new purchase for major updates/versions.) similar to what you did going from ArtStudio to Artstudio Pro.
I have been supporting and using ArtStudio and Artstudio Pro for many years on both the iPad and Mac. I hope you will reconsider your choices.
Sincerely,
— Not A Software Tenant.
P.S. I am not trying to be negative in this post. I totally appreciate all of your hard work and I am willing to support you and your product but I cannot support another company or app that moves to the subscription model. (I understand you are offering both subscription and perpetual licenses) but this is a huge scary foot in the door to a terrible business model. This is exactly why I left Adobe and Autodesk behind.