Package deal for all 3 programs

[crac3r]

Hi all,

are there any plans for a package deal for all 3 programs of the suite, once publisher is officially released? I'm very happy with the beta and am considering buying photo and designer. However, if there was the prospect of a package deal I'd wait until publisher is released and buy all 3 then.

So, is there any information you can give as of now?

Thanks in advance!

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @crac3r.

There’s never been a package deal for the Affinity apps, as far as I’m aware, but we were offered generous discounts on all of the apps when versions 1.5 and 1.6 were released. There were also discounts on the desktop apps when the iPad apps were launched.

[crac3r]

Thanks. My bad, I wasn't being specific enough, that's what I meant.

 

[Alfred]

No, I understood what you meant, or at least I think I did! Perhaps you misunderstood when I referred to “generous discounts on all of the apps”: you might have inferred that I meant “all of the apps as a package”, but there was actually a discount on each app regardless of whether you purchased one app or several.

[iMatt]

2021...."Serif is pleased to announce...the Affinity  Creative Suite''

2027...."Serif is pleased to announce...the Affinity Creative Cloud''

Wakes up in a cold sweat!

[SrPx]

Each of the apps is really cheap already...

[someguy]

On 10/20/2018 at 11:17 AM, αℓƒяє∂ said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @crac3r.

There’s never been a package deal for the Affinity apps, as far as I’m aware, but we were offered generous discounts on all of the apps when versions 1.5 and 1.6 were released. There were also discounts on the desktop apps when the iPad apps were launched.

to affinity, please confirm which is an update (free) and an upgrade (paid to obtain).

 

1.0  -  1.99 all the same = update (free) ?

Or is each tenths place after the decimal an upgrade and require a payment?  IE 1.5 - 1.6 ?

[MEB]

Hi someguy,
Upgrades (from version 1 to 2 or from 2 to 3 for example) and are paid. Updates are minor point releases (1.2, 1.3, 1.4 etc) and are all free.

[MickRose]

On 10/25/2018 at 4:28 PM, iMatt said:

2021...."Serif is pleased to announce...the Affinity  Creative Suite''

2027...."Serif is pleased to announce...the Affinity Creative Cloud''

Wakes up in a cold sweat

'Tis the ghost of  Ado

[Khunwilko]

On 10/27/2018 at 3:17 PM, SrPx said:

Each of the apps is really cheap already...

Finally had it with Adobe 

Cheap/schmeap. Still need a deal..

I would like to buy photo, designed publish, but really would like to see a package deal.

So can someone offer me one?

Otherwise I can get free openware options individually 

[SrPx]

It is already super cheap for what it offers.  The comparison with Adobe makes it really evident.  There have been huge discounts from Serif in certain moments, one very recently (50% or so). But IMO it is already a bargain. 

And yep, you can go the free route as well (Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, etc). But really (and I know those tools well, too: I think those are fine), if you work doing graphics, surely with a single gig earnings you can afford the 150 bucks that the 3 costs in sum. Renting (can't buy a permanent license, either) 3ds Max for a single month costs 205$, just to have some perspective here. You own nothing after putting that money every month, and you must keep paying every month bill. That's a single app!

I'm guessing you have been working with the cloud entirely, as you can only rent one app or the whole thing (and you want a replacement for the 3 fields), so is 60 bucks per month that you were paying...  With a bit more than 2 months you get the permanent license of the pack, with Affinity.

Or buy first Photo, then Designer, etc, as your pocket would go allowing.  If not doing pro work, you can go for the free tools instead (even for hobby I'd recommend Affinity better), as the lacks there wont be too much of a problem if it is a hobby (other than the fact of Affinity's UI being much easier to learn and deal with).  Can't extend much (work, lack of time) but to say that those free tools (Gimp, Inkscape,  Scribus, Blender, Krita) are really in a sweet moment compared with how they were before. And yet so, even if using them ( I do) , you will want to get the Affinity apps, as IMO, for certain industry standards needs,  are more complete and compliant in most of the cases (though is not Affinity's fields,  I'd say that Blender and Krita are very much capable for any freelancing: IMO are a step ahead of the other 3 main open source graphic apps). I often combine Inkscape and Designer, as weird as it might sound, in the same project. And there are good reasons for that. But I don't use any commercial 3D app for my most serious 3D work: I just use Blender (3D printing, game artwork, etc). The nice thing is that there are fine zero cost solutions for doing graphics, now. Just you will not be able to reach certain specs of the industry, but that gap is getting reduced. To me, is not worth it the time and lack of some features to go the free route.  At the price Affinity apps are. It is quite worth it for me to have them as my main 2D tools. 

EDIT: To be clear... you can do most of the pro freelancing with the free (open source or not) tools available. It is just that it will be harder (quite harder for some persons, easy for others) , and that (my main issue since 2002 and before) some features are not implemented despite being required by the industry, and this have been so for many years, although it is rapidly changing. You can still do freelancing intensively, just maybe not being able to pick certain projects.

[walt.farrell]

12 hours ago, Khunwilko said:

I would like to buy photo, designed publish, but really would like to see a package deal.

So can someone offer me one?

Try emailing affinity@serif.com and see if they are willing to offer a discount for buying all three at the same time.