Got an email to purchase 2019 upgrade and it's also stating upgrades are ending??? Is it going the dreaded "subscription" (rent, never own) model?!
After reading the many bugs and problems with 2019, very reluctant to move on to that one. I'd hate to purchase that 2019 upgrade and they leave it to die and NEVER fix it, but force me to SUBSCRIPTION after they take my money.
CorelDRAW Upgrades are Ending!
Now is your last chance to upgrade to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019. Later this year, upgrades will no longer be available.
Hi everyone. I want to provide a bit more context. As everyone knows, we pride ourselves at Corel in offering choice for how to get CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. For some, that means subscribing. For others, that means buying a perpetual license. The only thing that is really changing later this year is the "open upgrade" whereby users of any previous version can buy the perpetual upgrade license of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019. We will still provide the opportunity for current version owners to get into the latest version without having to subscribe or pay the Full version price. In the past we have changed the upgrade policy where only certain recent versions were eligible. Right now, the policy is wide open. But that is the only element that is changing later this year. As for Upgrade Protection, if you choose to go that route, it is valid for a period of one year from when you purchase it before it would need to be renewed to remain eligible for new versions as they come out. Thanks.
John Falsetto said:We will still provide the opportunity for current version owners to get into the latest version without having to subscribe or pay the Full version price.
Can you please "elaborate" on this very important part?
Typically it has usually been $199 (or $159 or so as I have seen at the lowest on sale) for an UPGRADE.
What are we looking at now?
John Falsetto said:to be available for current version owners
So "current" would be v2019? correct?
So if I have X7 or 2017, I am NOT eligible correct for that "much less than Full version price"? I would have to pay FULL price for 2020 version? Or purchase the LAST v2019 upgrade before it's gone?
Right now, 2019 is considered the current version, that's correct. But until later this year and the policy changes, any version owner can buy the upgrade version of 2019. When the policy changes later this year, only 2018 version owners will be eligible to buy 2019 at a discounted price compared to the Full version price. When the next version is released, then only 2019 owners will be eligible for that discounted offering. So once the policy changes, it will be the previous version only that will be eligible.
Making only the previous version of CorelDRAW eligible to upgrade is effectively an act of forcing perpetual license owners of CorelDRAW into a subscription arrangement. And considering the extra $99 fee one has to pay to join the "upgrade protection" program, on top of the $199 price to upgrade to CorelDRAW 2019, it's not much of a discount versus the $198 per year subscription price for new users who don't have a previous perpetual license version of CorelDRAW. It would be cheaper for me to just wait several years until CorelDRAW has built up enough improvements to make buying a full new version worthwhile, that is if I haven't switched completely to using a different vector drawing program by then.Back in the 1990's CorelDRAW had different levels of upgrade pricing for upgrades from 1, 2 or more versions back. Corel was forced to go to a single upgrade price due to competition from Adobe, Macromedia, Deneba and others. Here's the thing: today CorelDRAW has more rivals than just Adobe Illustrator. Applications like Affinity Designer, Autodesk Graphic, Vectornator and others are growing more mature and more popular. Those applications at full price cost just a fraction of a CorelDRAW upgrade. I think Corel is going to lose a bunch of casual-hobbyist designers to those alternatives.Lots of people in the sign industry such as myself use CorelDRAW, but this forced upgrade thing might be enough to make them rely solely on industry specific "CAS" applications for generating designs and client scale drawing sketches. In my shop we have to rely on Adobe's software for some aspects of our business as well as industry specific software for vinyl cutting, routing parts or large format printing. We could get by without CorelDRAW. I wouldn't like it, but it is do-able.
TOTALLY AGREE.
I "depend" on CorelDRAW, but if need be, X7 and 2017 will suit me for years to come. (I do NOT need those extra couple gimicky features they add each year)(I just need the CORE of CorelDRAW since it's been since day 1)
I am NOT upgrading to a not-for-primetime buggy release of 2019 and threatened I must in order to take part of the lower price sequential future versions. (or pay full price if I do not!) What the hell are they thinking? Glad I did not jump on the v2019 bandwagon!
They might want to watch out for Affinity Designer. (and Adobe for that matter)
Corel is REALLY SCREWING UP THIS TIME.
I agree that Corel is screwing this up however, I do have a license of 2019 on one system to utilize the new PDF output capability. It outputs fountain fills much better than any other previous version. So I work in 2018 and when I know I have a fountian fill PDF export issue I export the PDF from 2019.
2019 produces proper output from complicated multiple fountain fills better than in some cases Illustrator. In my opinion this capability is the main if not the only reason to upgrade from X8 capabilities.