R.I.P. Affinity 26.03.2024

Missing name on ipad. Hope you can fix it. Overall its the same bugged pressure tool with better UI. Still numerours artifacts with no fixes for years. The tool is needed, but its current state is tooooo raw to work with.

Its up to You to prove me wrong. If I am wrong I will change my display name to "Ash was right". Lets say 2 years from now (26.03.26). Let's hope I won't be banned before.

Saved for future! Anyway, most of us have no other choice so far. Personally, I can't afford Adobe's prices any more. It's been 3 years with Affinity and I was really happy to have it. Open Source software can't handle my needs. I can only wait few months to see whats gonna happen. What v2.5 is about. Even if all you said is untrue what can I do? Nothing.

Affinity users are 1-2% of all the Canvians. It worth nothing for them.

I needed blend tool and erase tool so bad. And I guess we won't see them coming now until v3. Personally, I'm not jumping of the ship right now. I'l wait what is 2.5 beta about. 2.2 till 2.4 were already poor for features (only minor fixes mostly). If its the same for 2.5 ill probably gonna try VectorStyler or will use try to use my old Illustrator cs6. I can't afford Adobe right now. Also v2 will work until Canva wants it to work. You can't activate it offline. When Canva closes activation servers you won't be able to use it at all. Only v1.

Another "Joined Yesterday" club member. 😁

Yea its funny a hell. I am happy 99% of people here aren't as dumb to believe in a "happy" Canva family future they are leading us to.

The difference is its Canva. Its a soulless corporation for amateurs designers moms to make some medias. Its not Serif anymore, we all trusted before. If Serif said they need money most people will buy suit again, or even except the subscription for reasonable price, like $9.99 USD/month easily.

People can't believe what they say no more. There is no more Serif. Its just Canva. People have lives and jobs. People worked in Affinity. They can't wait 1, 2, 3 years to be sure Affinity stays. People don't want to invest their time in most likely a dead company now, with no future for professional designers.

But how can we know now, that you are not lying? Serif lied once about "Ain't no one acquiring us 😎". What stops you from lying once again? You are now just a regular Canva employee (if you still are). What can motivate us to invest our time in Affinity? We can't play this game and hope Affinity will stay. Its our real lives and jobs. We were betrayed.

You won't V2 is ONLINE activated. You can only use V1 this way.

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Everything has already changed. You know this and we all know this. We are not asking about plans, cuz it doesn't matter anymore. We just ask for codes, so when you will shut down we can use V2. If yes thank you, if not, then I hope the money worth it.

My friend you coping too hard. Relax. I understand you wasted so many time for all this comments and etc. But we all understand what is going to happen. Today is the day Affinity died for designers. Its a fact. You say you prefer to believe Serif, but 1.5 years ago they said no one gonna buy them. And here we are. There is no more Serif, btw. Its Canva now. So you are prefering to believe what Canva says. I don't believe them. Canva will kill Affinity in a year or so. That's it. Canva is not an Adobe competitor. Affinity had a chance to be one.

I hope the money You got really worth it. Rumors say its 1 billion. Nice. Really happy for you. But I don't see anything good for users. I moved from Adobe 3 years ago. And now You adobed me again.