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Sigh... Why...? Why is it too hard? Why is it that in this day and age, we can't simply have something we pay for and keep with no worries. Once I started owning software, Affinity was my choice. They had a long track record of not selling out, retaining high standards and a fairly priced transaction.

You pay for good software, the company works hard to make the software better, and then sells you a better version that you can upgrade at your own choice. Plain, simple and honest.

Nothing lasts in this day and age.

You used to be something Serif, but now you're in the big leagues along with Adobe, and against them you're nothing.

Undramatic PS: Affinity Designer is damn solid, like it more than big A's Illustrator, shame I'm now afraid of pressing the update button >:(

EDIT:

“Family”

Let’s be real, everyone has a number that they’d be willing to sell out for. But this one hurts. Affinity make great software.

Well damn that sucks. I actually paid for affinity apps. I hope they don't go the way of subscription, because I may as well don my sailing hat at that point.

Do you want to lose customers forever? This is how you lose customers forever.

This is about the dumbest business decision either side could have made here. The Affinity tools’ only competitive advantage was not having the Adobe pricing model. Canva’s pricing model is basically dogshit Adobe lite.

Remembering the situation when Macromedia was bought bei Adobe – now I have the same vibes again. Five years later nothing was left except Flash – that horrible piece of software – and Dreamweaver – I liked that one. The best transition back then was from Freehand to Illustrator and (consequently from Quark) to InDesign.

And then in 2015 to Affinity. So ... 5 years with Corel, 12 years with Adobe/Macromedia, now 8 years with Affinity, so far ... let's see what they do and what we decide afterwards.

The sad thing is making the masses believe that under capitalism, companies strive for competition by making better and distinct products, while in this last century reality most of them are competing for who gets acquired by the bigger corporations and exit with shit loads of money.

for me gimp, inkscape and scribus are more than enough

Looked at Canva’s offerings for about 30 seconds and they all sound like trash.

I really liked Serif, it felt like they intended to do it right and largely did. I probably couldn’t walk away from a billion bucks, so I’ll try to to be too judgmental :-)

Loyalty to anything but yourself is pointless.

Nooooo, not Affinity! “Felt right” my ass, everyone has a price don’t they. Well at least I paid for it already, so even if they go subscription I’m fine. Unless they lock me out of it somehow. But then they will just die, as only reason people use it instead of adobe is the pricing

I was recommended Affinity on here a while back as a one-time-payment alternative to Adobe subscription based photoshop/publisher.

I haven't used Canva in a while, but I remember disliking their interface and pricing schemes. Am I right to think that this change is a bad thing for Affinity users?

We have to say that selling Serif was not on our minds at all, but when Canva contacted us (only a couple of months ago!) there was something about it which just felt right.

hmm :/

Will the ethos of Affinity change now it’s part of a large global company?

The team behind Affinity remains in place and our approach remains the same – and this is something that Canva is very focused for us to maintain too. Yes, we are now a division within a larger company, but we believe this will allow us to serve our community even better in the future and give us even greater freedom and ability to challenge the status quo.

They don't say anything about pricing / plans. If I'm going to be forced into a subscription anyways, then I might as well use adobe's stuff