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.

Affinity photo cracked windows