John2020

Recently I received a reply from Affinity about activating Affinity 2. I was told that "The Affinity 2 apps, whether bought singularly or as a universal license require an internet connection for activation". Clearly this is an anti-piracy action (although software requiring on-line activation can be hacked). However, Affinity 2 users may have the following issue with this: The Affinity packages use propriety data files that can only be opened with Affinity. Should Serif no longer support Affinity - or stop trading - then it will not be possible to install Affinity packages when upgrading to a new computer. Hence the data files would become inaccessible, and all the work done using Affinity packages would be lost. Those of us upgrading to Affinity 1 from the DrawPlus, PagePlus ... packages have already faced this problem once before and lost months of work. As a consequence, with regret, I will not be upgrading to the Affinity 2 packages. [Although larger companies (Adobe etc) require on-line activation they are not as likely to stop trading.]

I had a similar phone call from somebody who was also from 'SQ Legacy Software' last week. He also seemed to know about the fact that I had purchased software from the Serif telephone salespeople in the past and I placed an order for the Affinity Suite that, apparently, is different to that offered on the Serif website - the caller claimed that Affinity Design could now do blending and also that Affinity Publisher could now produce ePubs after I said that I was not interested in the suite until these facilities became available, and that this updated suite was not yet available to the general public. Consequently I placed an order for the package. Although I was told I would receive an email confirmation on the following day this did not arrive. I contacted Serif and they said they had not received this order. I am now waiting to see whether I receive anything in the post...