What Did Capture One Have to Say About It?Ĭapture One hopes this new subscription basis model will offer the upgrades when they are needed, not on a forced annual timeline. If you don't need the new features, nobody is forcing you to upgrade. Many software companies do it the same way.
It's industry standard to withhold feature updates to the next major release. Personally I don't see what's wrong with this move. Merry Xmas, bye and all the best for your future.Ī minority of commenters welcome the change and see it as an industry standard. This feels and smells like blackmail and extorsion. The readers collectively were impassioned. cut the marketing speak and be honest of what is happening. Hi C1, This hurts and is clearly about to anger the community. This is strictly about optimizing your profit and NOT in the best interest of your customers! Rolling out constant updates only to your subscription-based customers and leaving the perpetual licenses as a choice would be the way to go if you really cared what your customers want or need. Don´t try to sell it as doing what 'many of you told us'. Many responded with comments about what they felt like was disingenuous marketing language: So, if I understand correctly, that means that those of us who used to regularly upgrade (upgrades that went from $99 to $199 over a few years already) their perpetual license will now have to buy a full license each time there is a partial release? That is a clever move to go to a subscription only model without saying it. The overwhelming majority of comments from the community ranged from feeling mislead to outrage. A perpetual license is everlasting (for life, providing that you meet the minimum system requirements), while with a subscription plan you have to make regular payments to keep the license active - but you always have access to the latest version. The difference between those is the term of validity.
In an article on their support page, Capture One clarified:Ĭapture One offers perpetual and subscription licenses for users.
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