I see where you're coming from, but are updates free if you paid for them? Perhaps a better term would be "Membership for an update period".liquidsound wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:34 pmProbably it's better to see it as a "Renewal of Membership for free updates"
Bitwig is NOT a subscription
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- KVRist
- 120 posts since 1 Nov, 2010
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- KVRAF
- 5066 posts since 30 May, 2006 from Hollow Earth
Well, there are no free updates (with exceptions), even though other vendors charge for a substantial update and they include "free updates", those are actually paid for in the update price if you will.wavedigit wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:37 pmI see where you're coming from, but are updates free if you paid for them? Perhaps a better term would be "Membership for an update period".liquidsound wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:34 pmProbably it's better to see it as a "Renewal of Membership for free updates"
I think "One year Membership" (a friendly invite to) followed by "anything" provided by the vendor should remove the tendency to call it a Subscription.
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- KVRist
- 435 posts since 26 Nov, 2007
Where's my next year of upgrades? Last year wasn't good. I'm getting pretty annoyed as every time I open bitwig it asks for more money. OK maybe not every time but once is too much given most of the updates I've seen are largely bug fixes.
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- Banned
- Topic Starter
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
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- KVRist
- 270 posts since 10 Sep, 2008
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- KVRAF
- 11054 posts since 12 May, 2008
It's not even an update subscription. My plan has been ended since almost half a year and I've received all the updates because they are minor big fix updates. So yeah you obviously don't need to buy it as soon as it runs out. It's just a way to buy a major update whenever you want and then also get any major updates within a year from that point. You have to really not understand the situation to think it's a subscription. However in defense of those people, it isn't really so clear if you're not reading threads like this or if you don't already have Bitwig.
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- KVRAF
- 5756 posts since 29 Sep, 2010 from Maui
You only get updates while you are still on the same version. Mine is a few versions behind but still ver 3, I don't get any updates (bug fixes or anything), and can't really use it as a matter of fact, because it doesn't work well now. *I do get a notice to renew or ignore the latest version.
