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I feel you. We moved our studio back to Adobe. Illustrator and Photoshop are not perfect, but better than Affinity Designer, Photos and Publisher. 

I feel you. We moved our studio back to Adobe. Illustrator and Photoshop are not perfect, but better than Affinity Designer, Photos and Publisher. 

I feel you. We moved our studio back to Adobe. Illustrator and Photoshop are not perfect, but better than Affinity Designer, Photos and Publisher. 

I just resubscribed to creative cloud, I thought I could finish the project I'm working on with publisher but it's just impossible, too many bugs, too many inconsistencies, too many freezes and crashes, it drives me crazy. I'd rather start from scratch than continue with this software. I just hope there will be improvements in the future, maybe I'll give it a chance again, but for now, it's not a "professional" (as advertised) tool, definitely not.
I would be willing to trade features for stability. It could be the best software ever made if it is not stable it is useless.
SERIF : FIX YOUR SOFTWARE, STABILITY/RELIABILITY SHOULD BE THE #1 PRIORITY
And publisher is anything but stable. Its like an alpha.
I had a lot of hope and I thought it was great to finally have a real alternative to adobe. But I've been fooled by hype, reviews, forums and marketing.
Yes V2 universal licence is cheap, but even for free I don't want to work with.
I could easily pays like 500€ for stable suite, it would still be a fair price for a suite of professional tools
I think affinity has a positioning marketing problem, they want to target both amateurs and pros, we end up with the worst of both worlds.
now I'm going to spend the whole night redoing all my work in order not to be late Yes, I'm a bit angry. and I needed to vent my frustration.

While I can’t speak for that foundry, as a font designer myself, I am not going to waste my time producing every static combination of my fonts possible, when I can place it all in a single font per typeface. You know, if your font contains five variations in each of just five characters, you would have to produce 25 static fonts with corresponding kerning in each (or potentially put all the variants into one extra font with non-standard encoding and no kerning). And if you have more, the number of possible static fonts grows very quickly.
It is not the job of every single font designer or font foundry to produce static versions. It is the job of software like the Affinity Designer, Publish, and Photo to implement (or not if they don’t know how, or don’t care to) the standard.

I know this has been previously requested, but I wanted to emphasise on the importance of it. Imagine I've spent hundreds of dollars on variable fonts and at the end I can't use them.. That's the case with a lot of us.
But a bit of encouragement – you are doing a fantastic job! I love the suit and I try to explore it in depth (because it offers so much) so I can soon transition from adobe for good. I know that day is close 🙂 

And where is the problem? Everyone gets a upgrade price. You can look at it as a upgrade price, new users look at it as a promo price.

You paid 50 bucks and used the app for couple of years. Where is the problem? For v2 you get now 40% off and this is ok. You will again use the app for couple of years. You should get that money in 1-2 working hours. Some people are just funny. 

You get a upgrade price. 40% off the new price. Simple. Old price of Affinity was not sustainable. Everyone that works in this field knows that. It was a way to penetrate into the market. Prices go up. 

Sorry, but LOL. Only Serif knows how much they need to break even and develop new features. The full price is moderate and really cheap compared to other apps. 

Sorry, but LOL. Only Serif knows how much they need to break even and develop new features. The full price is moderate and really cheap compared to other apps. 

If the price is not right, you don't use it for pro work then u can use Inkspace. 80€ for a "pro" vector app and use it for couple of years is like free. For 2 years it's around 4 € per month. 

You get a upgrade price. 40% off the new price. Simple. Old price of Affinity was not sustainable. Everyone that works in this field knows that. It was a way to penetrate into the market. Prices go up. 

You get a upgrade price. 40% off the new price. Simple. Old price of Affinity was not sustainable. Everyone that works in this field knows that. It was a way to penetrate into the market. Prices go up. 

I bought my car couple of years ago, now for the newer model i pay 30% more. Same brand, same model, just newer. I don't get a discount. Hm. If 50€ is too much, stay on v1. 

And where is the problem? Everyone gets a upgrade price. You can look at it as a upgrade price, new users look at it as a promo price.

If professional software costing $100 is too much to spend on your business or side hustle, then you probably need to find a different business or side hustle. 
You get the entire suite forever for half the cost of a single month of Adobe, quit complaining and pay for your tools. 
Cheapskates. 

You get a upgrade price. 40% off the new price. Simple. Old price of Affinity was not sustainable. Everyone that works in this field knows that. It was a way to penetrate into the market. Prices go up. 

You get a upgrade price. 40% off the new price. Simple. Old price of Affinity was not sustainable. Everyone that works in this field knows that. It was a way to penetrate into the market. Prices go up. 

You paid 50 bucks and used the app for couple of years. Where is the problem? For v2 you get now 40% off and this is ok. You will again use the app for couple of years. You should get that money in 1-2 working hours. Some people are just funny. 

I bought my car couple of years ago, now for the newer model i pay 30% more. Same brand, same model, just newer. I don't get a discount. Hm. If 50€ is too much, stay on v1. 

Seriously, I think even the standard asking price BEFORE a discount is a good enough reward.
Some of us remember how much full version upgrades could cost in the days before subscribtion models.
Comparatively this is a fantastic deal - and even new users get to benefit.
 
 

Do you really expect to be thanked for buying a software product? You got multiple years of usage out of it so where is the problem?

You paid 50 bucks and used the app for couple of years. Where is the problem? For v2 you get now 40% off and this is ok. You will again use the app for couple of years. You should get that money in 1-2 working hours. Some people are just funny. 

@HelmarIf you compare the price to the industry standard, yes. The question is, should you compare it to the industry standard. 
I know they do a lot of marketing in that regard. But, IMO, the Adobe apps are still ahead in pretty much everything.