I just received an email that informed me that my CorelDraw Suite monthly subscription has almost TRIPLED!
I thought this must surely be in error and went to Coreldraw.com to see the latest pricing... has Corel gone bonkers? Are they actually TRYING to drive people towards Adobe products?
Both the once-off and subscription prices have escalated enormously. I don't think I'll be able to justify using Corel over Adobe to the boss anymore, especially after the v2019 fiasco where we literally found the software useless and a danger to productivity due to all the bugs...
Shouldn't Corel Corp be mending fences instead of burning bridges?
Well this just sucks of stupidity! Whose ego set these prices?
$69 au a monthAdobe EVERYTHING $76.99 au a month
And you can get parts of the suite for less, just $14 for Photoshop and Lightroom + 20Gb cloud storage.
Compared to other software... DaVinci Resolve is only $595 for the full license. And that program gets massive developer attention. And the free version is enough to crap on any Corel or Abobe video product.
It would be fair to say that CGS is worth $35 (at the most) if the pricing was to equal market expectation.
Corel would have to be THE market leader to get $69 and it so isn't. You wouldn't find "Corel Draw" listed as a important app on any job advert in Australia, where as they are all demanding competence in Adobe Suite. Corel can't price a product based on cash need when it is failing in market share and come up with profit.
Over charging and releasing software with issues doesn't grow a user base.
Yes, whose Ego set these prices! Look at the new owner of Corel (KKR & Co.), and you will see that it's just an investment Company, who ONLY looks to get the max benefit for the investment.And such Companies don't look at the deeper structure in a Company, but only what it actually has of potential to provide return of the investment.
Corel through it's long history, has always been a flickering Company, where it only maybe in the first 15 years, had a structured goal.
Corel has 35 years experince in the business, and look what the have moved to in development and growth. In reality very-very little.So I can fear, that by this new ownership of Corel, it's the beginning to the end.
Corel has been externally owned by private equity bean counting firms since the early 2000’s. Vector Capital was the previous owner. They acquired Corel after the company went through a period of turmoil at the end of the 1990’s when Corel’s founder (Michael Cowpland) was accused of insider trading and left the company. Since then the company has gone through periods of acquiring other companies (Micrographx, Ulead, Intervideo, Word Perfect, MetaCreations, JASC Software, Parallels, etc).The KKR deal just seems like a continuation of more of the same. I think the bean counters are suffering from “magical thinking.” I don’t think they’re very aware of what is happening elsewhere in the graphic design software market. I think the current pricing model for CorelDRAW is just plain ridiculous. The pricing structure will not do anything to attract new users. If anything, the high prices will push people to other rival applications for better or worse. Corel needs steady income to survive. They’re not going to get that if they end up losing some customers to Adobe on the high end and others to a slew of low cost alternatives on the low end.IMHO, an annual CorelDRAW subscription would be more fairly priced at a $99 level. That would put the annual cost back where it used to be when CorelDRAW was on a 2-year product cycle (and when new version upgrades actually meant something). A $249 annual price for CorelDRAW is a rip off.
Hard to disagree given the poor quality of programming. If I listed backward steps from X7 to now you'd scroll several pages.