Napkin6534
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Of course. Only naive users will believe all those PR stunts they are now pulling. It is clear as day to all that think about it and take into account all other mergers/aquisitions in the field. Follow the money and the ways (for Canva) of extracting projected value from the investment (for Canva). It is pure business and Excel spreadsheet from now on. The soul (and Affinity´s own mission/vision) has left the building. Serif can promise everything now, but being bought they are now longer in control what happens from now on. Canva can change management and render all those funny "pledges" ineffective on some technicality. These pledges are just mere words without ramifications, there is no binding agreement on Canva´s (Affinity is out of the picture now, so their words are meaningless and unenforceable) part, where they state that "we promise to never cut off you from your bought programs, here is an option to install V2 without ever needing us to do so, without registration servers -- so that we can not fool you in the future".
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Look into your emails—damage control has arrived. I cant fathom why THAT message was not the first thing they said, instead of that sad-CEO video and empty marketing phrases in the first email? Ok, two things: "If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it." (I put relevant parts in bold) Not "IF" but when, and perpetual model will be sunset after several years and registration servers several years after that. We have seen this in the industry many times. Ah well, sad times. "To kick things off, we’d love to learn more about what you’d like to see as we embark on this next chapter of our journey. What would you like to see in Affinity? What features have you been dreaming of? What would you love to achieve?" Well, how about to clear the bugs backlog for starters, and see what was suggested so far in terms of features? I understand that you want to end your email on a positive upbeat note, that now everything will be peachy, but that is too on the nose.
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From their FAQ (I bolded the important parts): I dissect PR smokes/mirrors for living. So read between the lines — next versions may have different pricing structure. They are not ruling out subscriptions or other ideas. So, no more advocating Affinity for me, the future is bleak. No more investing mentally or financially (V2 could by my last purchase). Very sad they sold out: it was such a beautiful dream, European "David", independent, with clear price structure, striving underdog. Now it is circling the corporate aquisition drain.
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I have an older version still on disk. Tried to run the benchmark on both versions. I attach the result. EDIT: I ran unsandboxed benchmark, and the results are attached below, EDIT2: I cannot add a reply, there is some silly limit on post number, so I have to edit this post again. Below you can find the results of a "sandboxed" benchmark on another computer with Ryzen 3100 + 32 GB of 2133 MHz memory + nVidia 1080ti
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Update OCIO support to v2.0
Napkin6534 replied to Napkin6534's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
There is an interesting bit of info on workaround for now. Though I have not tested it yet. EDIT: tried this, not working in Cinema 4D, so no dice. I am then waiting for a proper implementation of OCIO v2 -
Update to OCIO v2.0
Napkin6534 replied to theartofsaul's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
Thank you! I will try it. I see there was even an update 6 hours ago I will also post this info into another thread about v2.