The past four days have kinda been a nightmare. I was locked out of my Mac version of CorelDRAW because of the formatting on the pop-up that asks you to sign in so you can receive new version alerts and sales made it impossible to fill in the fields. I never thought twice about it before and I would just sign in and move on. I never thought that Corel would make the software unusable until you agreed to view ads. I'm including pictures of what the pop-up looked like for the first two days versus what it was supposed to look like.
Am I the only person to be affected by this?
Doesn't this make my stand-alone version of CorelDRAW adware? A stand-alone version of the software should not need to maintain an internet connection to run if work isn't being accomplished in the cloud. I really am curious to know if I am the only one who lost time because of this issue. Is this just a Mac problem?
There was an issue on the PC side over the Mother's Day weekend but it lasted only a day.
I know nothing about the Mac version except it has been poorly received.
It could be great if they committed to the app until it hit feature parity with the Windows version and squashed all the annoying bugs. But what app wouldn't be great if all the bugs were squashed and given feature parity to some other good app?
The tech I spoke to said he dealt with at least 4 others and he blamed it on a Mac update which I can't dismiss out of hand. It still should never have happened.
The decision to lock users out if they don't phone home wasn't a Mac issue. That part wasn't a bug it was a feature. It really shouldn't be that way.