And at the same time, Magix bumps XDPX down to 25th position, second page, in the Product Finder.
(£89, €89, $99).
I might recommend upgrading, if the figures made sense:
New XDPX £199/£199, Upgrade £89.
New XWDP £185/£70, Upgrade £35.
45-50% for an upgrade, when it comes, is too steep. We are over 3 months since v15.1 was unfurled and coming up to 9 months for v15.0.
Effectively, why shell out cash for on-line access that is achievable, for free, with a little effort?
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat
You shell out the money for the bugfixes, not the online access...
Here's what came to my mind: The first XARA version with the subscription service started in July 2016, if my memory serves me right. I assume that many long-term customers bought themselves into that quickly, resulting in quite a few subscription services up to renewal around July/August every year.
Now, here's the interesting part: In both 2017 and 2018 the "spring" release of XDPX had/has annoying or downright crippling issues with the PDF export, which were only solved by the "fall" release, which appeared rather late in the year, i.e. later than August.
You need to export PDF? Well, then renew your subscription or go find another piece of software. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
I personally jumped to Affinity Designer. Works better and is WAY less expensive. I have supported Xara for years, but when they went subscription everything went down hill and remained an expensive investment, so with that... I'm out. I also moved all of my web design projects to WordPress and Elementor Pro.
When out of Update Service cover, you lose the bug fixes back to your purchase version if you re-install, unless Xara chose to release a specific bug release.
Xara needs to ensure bug fixes in the year of cover are retained but its approach cannot accommodate this.
Why should anyone be shamed to criticise Xara on its subscription model or are you reflecting the term back onto Xara?
'Dieu et mon droit' might be more apt.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat
P.S. Do review Xara's explanation for the Update service: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ting-Explained.
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat
"Caveat emptor" may also be appropriate.
Keith
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