shushustorm Posted November 12, 2022 Posted November 12, 2022 Hey everyone! Congratulations on the release of V2! - Quite pleased to see V2. - Quite pleased to see no subscription. - Not so pleased to see no High Sierra support (but understandable to some point). - Not so pleased to see no V1 file compatibility (not understandable). Please include a simple 1.X importer and exporter. You already have that for 1.X. You should (?) be able to integrate it with V2 in a quite straight forward way, unless you went crazy on the most basic systems you have. I know I can import and export to .psd, but that will leave behind everything that's Affinity. I'd like to only leave everything behind that's Affinity V2 in the process when transferring between V2 and V1. On some hardware, I still require High Sierra for some stuff. I could update my iPad versions (and get Publisher that doesn't exist as version 1), but without being able to port the files between V1 and V2, that's going to be a headache. Please be aware that by not including this, you're going to split up your user base. To which degree, of course, I don't know. But it will happen. Some people - will still require to or want to work with older OSs you don't support, - won't be able to or won't want to invest the money to upgrade the entire suite, especially with the prices increased and the 40% off period being over, - won't want to even upgrade one software when this means breaking links between, for example, V2 Photo and V1 Designer as well as V2 Photo and V1 Publisher, - are completely satisfied with V1 already and don't see a point in updating to V2, - don't like or have trouble using the new UI, - just decide updating isn't worth it (yet), because the new features aren't (yet) worth the cost for updating, - face bugs in V2 that weren't there in V1. User base fragmentation means - fewer bug reports, resulting in less reliable software, - a number of people having issues with your software, because they need to exchange files with someone from the other group (V1 VS V2) making your software, at best, bothersome to use or, depending on the situation, completely unusable or just not efficient enough to accomplish the required results, - people being frustrated, because of going V2 with a trial or buying one of the softwares, saving a bunch of files, and not being able to go back (that's huge!), - some users will trust your software less, since a new version created such a messy situation. I think a simple Exporter and Importer for V1 files could very well be worth the effort. Now personally, I am going to buy the entire V2 suite anyway, because V1 did serve me quite well (started using Designer before 1.0, it's almost been a decade now) and for a reasonable price as well and I will probably have to update eventually, in a few years. But still. Would be great to go back and forth between V2 on iPad and V1 on desktop. I searched for "v1" and the search stated there were 0 results. Best wishes, Shu Nox and skmwrp 2 Quote
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