Nico

I'm very much in sync with a lot of the CEO talk after the revelation of studio link a while ago, I started investing in the tools just for this hope , its branding name and got realised finally. I do not think affinity has really a need to compete on video or 3d as next product but capitalise on the existing 2d focused persona to create new ones that leverage existing vector and raster functionality. I can see something good with an eventual "Affinity Animator" to take on spine/spriter/live2d rigging and more traditional flash like products reusing a lot of existing product code for all the vector/raster processing, and potentially an "Affinity Architect" architecture/cad persona to build upon illustration feature into a more technical vector drawing set of tools.
As UI/UX person I would really like to see a prototype persona in the form of "Affinity Experience" to take fully on Sketch and Adobe XD, the base of Affinity designer and photo, with added responsive/animate tools for ui/ux/collaboration, and a single format would make something great and very powerful, granted you have enough manpower to catchup with the years of features built by competitors. You did with some of those adobe behemoths, so I have faith
I do think Serif has good a very capable team, good vision of a CEO, and a clean modern code base to work with, there are the basis for a true extensive and cohesive product suite for the next 10 years and beyond.
At this price point, absolutely a no brainer to conquer the world

I'm very much in sync with a lot of the CEO talk after the revelation of studio link a while ago, I started investing in the tools just for this hope , its branding name and got realised finally. I do not think affinity has really a need to compete on video or 3d as next product but capitalise on the existing 2d focused persona to create new ones that leverage existing vector and raster functionality. I can see something good with an eventual "Affinity Animator" to take on spine/spriter/live2d rigging and more traditional flash like products reusing a lot of existing product code for all the vector/raster processing, and potentially an "Affinity Architect" architecture/cad persona to build upon illustration feature into a more technical vector drawing set of tools.
As UI/UX person I would really like to see a prototype persona in the form of "Affinity Experience" to take fully on Sketch and Adobe XD, the base of Affinity designer and photo, with added responsive/animate tools for ui/ux/collaboration, and a single format would make something great and very powerful, granted you have enough manpower to catchup with the years of features built by competitors. You did with some of those adobe behemoths, so I have faith
I do think Serif has good a very capable team, good vision of a CEO, and a clean modern code base to work with, there are the basis for a true extensive and cohesive product suite for the next 10 years and beyond.
At this price point, absolutely a no brainer to conquer the world

Hi Dan, I respect your side. All I was looking for is to be able to allow parameters to the exe, or distribute directly the msi files that allow parameters from command line to be silent, and add user and product key. It would not affect anything regarding piracy compared to what's now as you can still /extract the exe into msi with user/key embedded anyway and distribute that copy ready to install if you want. This would allow to simple chain multiple affinity applications together with other installations (Firefox, chrome...) once a win10 clear installation is done, and new versions would just be a download and copy in the existing folder as the process is managed by a batch file independently.
I understand there are other solutions with automation software like autoit or autohotkey, but doesn't look as simple and elegant. Best would probably to use something similar to NPM like Chocolatey, but unlike the web, doesn't look it has ever taken off for standard software. At least commercial ones, blame the rise of the subscription models and all those proprietary "launchers".
Thanks anyway to everyone.