As of today, 1/27/2020 (may have been sooner? Was supposed to be 12/01/2019), I have noticed that the UPGRADE option is officially gone for Windows users. It is now SUBSCRIPTION or FULL VERSION DOWNLOAD / BOX PURCHASE ONLY:
https://www.coreldraw.com/en/product/coreldraw/?topNav=en
Let's see what happens. : /
Did you not see the date-specific deadline pop-ups warning of the approaching upgrade deadline? The pop-ups I was frequently seeing in CorelDRAW 2018 at my work and my personal copy of X8 at home stated a Monday, January 20 deadline.The funny thing is their web site store jumped the gun, so even on January 20 the upgrade option (with $99 upgrade protection) was no longer available as an optoin -just the full version and subscription. I was able to get an upgrade by calling Corel's customer service line on Jan 20. I don't know if the customer service people would be willing to do that a week after the deadline has passed.
Bobby Henderson said:Did you not see the date-specific deadline pop-ups warning of the approaching upgrade deadline?
no, as I use X7 the majority of the time. I have received other popups in v2019 (and Windows 10 itself (lower left)) about things...but not the upgrades are ending ones... did see those in emails though...but early on on, with a DEC 1 2019 end date... nothing lately with a JAN deadline...but then again, I tend to ignore those damn things.
The pop ups were pretty generic for months on end. I never saw an actual specific deadline date in the pop-ups until around January 13, about a week prior to when Corel was going to finally pull the plug on upgrades. I think that was right around when the last $159 upgrade sell was ending. Then upgrades were $199 for the final week.