Just Released: A New Version of Web Designer

[pauland]

Actually you don't lose out on anything by buying "Version 12" - that has the improvements from 11 and you get to keep the bug fixes regardless. After a year, you can choose whether you want to buy "Version 13" or not. You haven't lost anything from what you would have without a subscription.

Before the subscription, Xara was one of the very few companies that don't add new features to the current version - an increasingly outdated model. So you buy the new version, it didn't change (except for bug fixes), then a year later you have an opportunity to buy the next version or stay with what you have.

Under the subscription model, it's similar, but there's a very big difference - during the year you get access to new stuff. At the end of the year, you'll still have access to new stuff, but if you don't renew your subscription you lose access to some library features. Still you will have the new features, so it's an improvement on the old model... ..provided your hard drive isn't changed, you do a reformat, change computer, etc. because when that happens you lose all those new features that you got used to that were added during the subscription.

Losing those features could force you to have to renew your subscription if you needed access to them. That's the kicker.

Nobody likes to be given something, then be told they can't have it anymore.