Hi All, I am thrilled to announce that Affinity is joining the Canva family. This is a moment of great excitement, anticipation, and profound gratitude for all of you who have been part of our story so far. We know that those of you who’ve put your faith in Affinity, some since we launched our ve...
I was recommended Affinity on here a while back as a one-time-payment alternative to Adobe subscription based photoshop/publisher.
I haven’t used Canva in a while, but I remember disliking their interface and pricing schemes. Am I right to think that this change is a bad thing for Affinity users?
hmm :/
They don’t say anything about pricing / plans. If I’m going to be forced into a subscription anyways, then I might as well use adobe’s stuff
Affinity refused to make Linux ports. That alone killed them for me.
full port would have been great but i would have been already very happy if they at least tried to make it run somewhat ok via wine.
Just bought Designer a week ago. Wouldn’t have touched it had it been a subscription. I love it so far but it will be my last purchase of any Affinity software if they move to a subscription.
Id contact them if i were you, asking for clarification and possibly a refund.
I’ve sent them an email, not too hopeful I’ll get any information out of them about their pricing model going forward though.
Edit: They replied but they just gave a copy and pasted statement from the press release that Designer V2 users will own in perpetuity, nothing regarding future plans.
I too wrote to them. This is their reply
I can tell you my first reaction sure as hell wasn’t “sweet, now I can hook my photo editor into some online bullshit”.
They have an FAQ that says they’re keeping the same model and plan to continue to develop v2. How long that lasts, though?
No plans “at this time”. So next week I’m guessing lmao