Great. Now, please listen carefully. Do not fuck up Affinity. It’s absolutely fantastic software with a great purchasing model. Do NOT turn this into a subscription. For the love of god.
>Canva’s business model is subscription, are there any plans to change how Affinity is sold? > >There are no changes to our current pricing model planned at this time, with all our apps still available as a one-off purchase. Existing Affinity users will be able to continue to use your apps in perpetuity as they were originally purchased – with plenty of free updates to V2 still to look forward to!
I guess the keywords are “at this time”.
[1] https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/canva-statem...
...but since there's nothing stopping us, we will definitely do it later once the publicity of the acquisition has died down. Like, next year probably.
Another great project like that is http://reaper.fm/ and I hope they'll never move from the "pay once for current and current+1 version" which is both providing future income and is not a subscription.
I like the idealistic "not all things need to grow" mindset, just wanted to shine a light that most things don't work that way.
You hit the nail on the head. Affinity isn’t a SaaS service. It’s a licensed software product sold by major version.
Although the corporate world seems to have left the product/service distinction behind, most _people_ haven’t (and accountants certainly haven’t).
I don’t care if it’s 50 bucks or 500. I don’t want to pay for your shitty subscriptions. I do not want to have an account, I do not want to have to have an internet connection just to use software that I paid for.