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Hi, @Anaximandre

Short: No. Lowest supported version is 10.15 Catalina.

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51 minutes ago, Anaximandre said:

Thanks, I now that for new version, but I want bye an odld version

Licences for the V1 versions of the Affinity applications are no longer available for purchase, either directly from Serif or via the Microsoft or Apple stores.

In other words, since V2 was released, you can only purchase new licences for the V2 applications.

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Wow! how to cut away a portion of your market and alienate its users.

I'll assume you have a 2011 mac. There are ways to get Catalina onto an unsupported Mac using a patcher: https://dosdude1.com/catalina/ if you are good at technical IT its possible but a better option would be to look at buying a 2012/13 mac these will take OS X Catalina then you can get V2 and sell the old mac.

 

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2 hours ago, N.P.M. said:

Probably it was the deal with apple/microsoft that made them do it that way for the universal license.
One should think that if the v1 were still available, Serif would gain from the sales and have those users upgrade hardware and upgrade the affinity's in due time.
Most likely they wanted only new sales for the universal license as that would create more revenue.

More likely, they don't want to be accused of selling a product they won't be fully supporting, since they'll never be fixing most reported bugs; just ones that prevent operation due to OS changes.

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25 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

And that's why we're running beta 1.5

 

Beta 1.5 of what? And if it's on a Mac, I thought Mac betas expired.

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49 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

More likely, they don't want to be accused of selling a product they won't be fully supporting, since they'll never be fixing most reported bugs; just ones that prevent operation due to OS changes.

As long as that is stated at point of sale, i.e. Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware), I cannot see the problem. 

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9 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

make it appear as though we got something new, we didn't

Except we did get new somethings. Books, footnotes/sidenotes/endnotes in APub, the knife tool and shape builder in AD, etc.

10 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:
  • Bad error messages that makes no sense to te end user.

On this I agree. Any error message should be absolutely clear what the error is. 

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6 hours ago, firstdefence said:

how to cut away a portion of your market and alienate its users.

An elegant solution would have been a minor update to v1 so that it would also accept the v2 license, particularly as part of the Universal License. Like that, users still would be able to download v1 from the Serif Store and run that instead of v2 if they don't have a compatible computer.
That said, there still would have been a limit since e.g. El Capitan never supported the My Account feature. But on MacOS Sierra and above it might have worked.

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