"pre-sales" questions:

[Neural]

I am looking at purchasing Affinity Photo specifically because Photoshop has become more trouble than it is worth with the monthly fees and all the bloatware that comes with it.

What are the future plans for Affinity Photo in regards to updating the software, potential changes to the pricing (i.e. moving to a monthly fee structure which would then be required in order to stay up to date)? 
What is the current update process/structure for Affinity Photo?  Payment for each new version?  Upgrades for a specific period of time? (this would be nice to have on the main page of the website for the software)
Additionally, I have noticed that while the Affinity Photo trial program runs at less than 25% of the memory usage of CC 2020, the "power usage" is listed as "very high".  Is this an issue that is being considered for optimization?

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

You will find that Serif generally does not comment on future plans.

For now, though:

1. Each license you purchase is good for installation on multiple computers that you own or control, running one OS family (Mac, Windows, or iPad), as long as no one but you uses them for commercial purposes.

If you use multiple OS families, or switch to a different OS family, or have multiple people using the application commercially, you'll need to buy more licenses.

2. Each license you purchase covers all future updates of that product that occur during version 1. Currently that's release 1.8, and 1.9 when it becomes available (it's in beta now) and anything that may follow 1.9, until Serif releases 2.0. We don't know what will follow 1.9, and Serif isn't saying. 2.0 could follow 1.9, but there have been mentions of the possibility of 1.10, 1.11, etc. Whatever happens, you won't pay any more for that application on that OS-family until you decide to buy 2.0 if/whenever it becomes available.