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.
No. CorelDRAW will not be a subscription model only. Nobody will force you to subscribe. You can buy the next version (the box version) as always, and use it for a lifetime without paying anything extra.
The only thing that will end is the discount for previous versions. In the present, if you have, for example, X3, X4, X5, etc., you can buy CorelDRAW 2019 at half the price (approx.). This discount will not be available from the next version.
How do you know "CorelDRAW will not be a subscription model only. Nobody will force you to subscribe. You can buy the next version (the box version) as always, and use it for a lifetime without paying anything extra." ?
How do you know that Coreldraw is not going to be a subscription only model, for instance?
Do you KNOW or are you guessing?
Actually, what I say will always be my personal opinion, not the company's point of view. But I do not think I'm crazy, nor do I invent stories to please anyone. What I say is based on what I read or hear from people who do have a valuable opinion. For example, Gerard Metrailler has repeated over and over again that the company plans to continue offering both perpetual and perpetual subscriptions. And since Gerard Metrailler is Executive Vice President of Global Products at Corel Corporation, his word is far more relevant than I can say, think or believe.
https://medium.com/@gmetrail/thank-you-for-sharing-your-thoughts-about-the-v1-product-with-30-years-of-development-the-team-at-9836857c3be
They can try to split hairs as much as they like. But the money math on it is 100% absolutely clear. If any registered CorelDRAW user wants to skip paying $200 for a very lame "upgrade" and choose to wait 1 or more version cycles for improvements to add up they get to pay FULL PRICE as if they're a new customer who never spent one cent on Corel software previously. It's a pretty hostile move.IMHO, CorelDRAW is not worth paying a $198 annual subscription to maintain. If we were talking the $99 per year category I might bite on that hook. But not anything else. With this new model they're choosing, I think I'm going to stick with the perpetual license versions of CorelDRAW I already own, NOT buy any new (and buggy) upgrades and just wait until some big new update of Windows finally breaks the versions of CorelDRAW I already own. Worst case scenario we can run VM Ware or whatever off line to keep old copies of CorelDRAW operational and then just convert assets we need over to PDF or EPS. We probably should have been doing that for many years already. It's only just recently that I learned Corel was not really owned by a Canadian company anymore, but rather a venture capital hedge fund outfit of parasites. If I had known that years ago when Vector Capital first got involved with Corel I would have already been migrating much of my graphics assets over to NON-Corel formats.
Bobbly, respectfully, what you say happened in the last century. In terms of computers, that's prehistory. In the last twenty years, I have read countless times the predictions according to which Corel was going to disappear that same year. On the contrary, the company has grown and the number of CorelDRAW users has multiplied.Maybe it's not perfect, but it's our job to try to improve it. I do not see the need to back up in other formats (and of course, I would not use the old EPS, but each one has different needs).
If in the future CorelDRAW disappears or another company buys it, I would continue to use the program for several more years, as long as it is technically possible. However, as time passes I think that possibility is increasingly distant. However, as time passes, I think that possibility is increasingly distant.
What Corel is doing to users of CorelDRAW is a hostile yet desperate act to goose sales numbers without providing much in the way of value to the customers. It's a ploy to drive up the company's stock price. They want us paying $200 per year, every year just to use CorelDRAW regardless of whether they are doing anything to actually earn that money from us.
There is another term for that: WELFARE. They're wanting everyone on the hook, paying a maximum even if upgrades to CorelDRAW are a parade of ever diminishing returns.
It might be a "so last century" way of thinking to be accustomed to buying a software upgrade only when the upgrade looks worthwhile. But that paradigm forces developers to deliver. Expecting users to buy every upgrade on what is effectively a subscription system (the "upgrade protection" program) is a welfare system for the software developers. If everyone is forced to buy every new version then the developers can just go through the motions rather than improve and innovate.
Bobby Henderson said:IMHO, CorelDRAW is not worth paying a $198 annual subscription to maintain. If we were talking the $99 per year category I might bite on that hook. But not anything else.
The price of the "Upgrade Protection Program" (the additional subscription to the perpetual purchase) is 99 dollars by year, not 198