What's better alternative to sound toys 5 bundle black Friday deal?

[mothra]

Yep - they got their hooks into me. I just sprung for the Anthology XII update.
https://www.eventideaudio.com/plug-ins/anthology-xii/
Saved a few bucks by doing it in stages, but it might have been less hassle just getting it right away.
I started out only wanting Blackhole

They're a good company though and have been around a long time.
Sort of like the Moog/Oberheim of fx and signal processing.

I can upgrade for $49 but Im still a bit wary of surrendering all my individual plugins for the Anthology license.. I mean it would be nice to own the WHOLE bundle, I made it to the $49 level with bits and pieces here and there (own most of the H9 stuff, H3000 stuff, Quadravox/Octavox, Instant Flanger/Phaser/H949), but once I do it, Im stuck with the Anthology license..

Looking at the price of the bundle, I just hope when the next version comes out it's not like $1000 to upgrade to it. Same reason I skipped buying Steinberg's Absolute for dirt cheap a couple months ago. I have Halion, and just got Groove Agent by itself for $30 last week hah. I didn't want to be stuck having to wait until they update Absolute to use new versions, I'll get them day 1 since I own the individual instruments.

Any Anthology users have any insight on all that??

[felis]

I had the same reservations, but I went with both Absolute and Anthology.
I want to stick with just a few and get to know them inside and out.
I also don't feel like I have to jump on an update right away, but can wait for the right timing and price.

It was a little queasy feeling surrendering the licenses I just got,
but I think it will be the right choice for me in the long run.
Of course, YMMV