![]() ![]() ![]() It facilitates the creation of visuals using vector graphics and the addition of text using type layers. But to do that, they need to start actually providing support for their products otherwise they’ll just end up being another pile of bloat like other apps, making them no better.Affinity Photo is a general-purpose design tool, not just a photo editor, like Photoshop. Their products are relatively lightweight and could be great core products. If you do win you don’t know if you’ll win again but they are sure going to keep trying to increase the stakes through more features to sell more tickets decreasing your odds of winning further. ![]() It’s relatively inexpensive, You really don’t know what you’re going to get next or if you’re going to win at all. IMO Serif is like buying a lottery ticket. Adobe was late to the party but has since arrived - making Serif less necessary.Īnd yet you feel my principles for not supporting a company that doesn’t support their products is wrong? Note I’ve never had a problem with Adobe not supporting their product as a paying customer over 20 years. I came to Affinity because they were first to the iPad when I wanted to try using an iPad for GD. I’m sure many of these same people lease cars, pay rent for offices or homes, or have a gym membership. People seem to forget that each of their products was between $300 and $500 a seat and they only fixed bugs in that release. Before the subscription plan, the cost of Adobe products was far more expensive than it is now. The only reason people bitch about the price is not the actual cost but on principle. That’s less than a couple hours of billable work for an entire year for myself. If you can’t afford a ~$55 monthly expense as a professional you’ve got bigger problems and should be seriously reconsidering your career choices. I have no problems paying for any software I use to earn a living or use in my hobbies.įor that matter any graphic artist, photographer, publisher that’s earning a living with these tools shouldn’t have a problem either. In fact, I do, and I haven’t stopped paying Adobe even as an Serif customer. In my perspective, V1 had support abandoned 4 years ago with me when I bought it, why do you think them introducing V2 changes that? If they’d just fix things instead of continually adding new features I’d have a much different perspective. There hasn’t been an actual “update” that I needed to V1 in 4 years - what’s your point? Every release they’ve made has been an upgrade of new features with nearly zero updates to existing ones that have bugs. You act like you think I believe that’s a problem? Keep adding features to lure the sales - but do as much as you can to hide the bugs and defects don’t spend a lick of time fixing anything unless it prevents you from adding one new feature. I’ve come to the conclusion Serif is just a company that markets software. The most that was done was being marked as duplicate with nothing further done. Not a single one has been fixed or addressed over the last 4 years that I’ve owned the software. I’ve opened about 5 tickets with Serif (which ultimately were duplicates). I’ve actually opened tickets with Adobe on a number of occasions and had every single one addressed and eventually fixed. There’s just too many fanboys basking in the low price and lots of “free new features”.Įach release adds more “free features” I didn’t want or expect. Serif is quickly heading in the same direction. ![]()
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