@Pingu said:
Steinberg, for instance, manage upgrades for quite a while, but only if you've stayed within two versions of the latest, and then they suddenly announce that you have a few weeks to do so or else buy Cubase over again. Usually, at this point, the price of the collective upgrades between the version they are 'cutting off' and the latest does not total the price of the whole product, so there is definitely a punitive feel to the policy.
I was a former Cubase user for 10 or more years and I do not remember Steinberg having promised life-time updates - on the other hand they announced free updates/bugfixes just to cancel them later. I think Steinberg is not known for a consistent product policy or long time products and support 😊 MOTU offers pretty long-term updates - you can update very old versions of Digital Performer just like you can update the version before - same price .... Apple goes back to Logic 5 (which was a product from a different company even .....) - but those are Mac products - so it is more family-like ... 😊
I do not think that there can be any agreement - in some places the old libs are still sold (as it looks like) and there will be always people who are unhappy with the current offer. In this regard VSL might find it easier to go through that once and for all 😊 (not saying that I like it ...)
Well, maybe it is the best as it is - VSL has to stay competitive and I think there is a chance that prices will not go up but the other way round. If you look at the guitars horizon prices and what they cost now there is a clear difference. The VI is also about 30 months old after July 15th ......
I hope they will reconnect to the horizon series - offering a full set of samples for one instrument or a small collection. that would be great.
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