Affinity Suite no longer for sale...Is this the end?

[Dolphins1972]

Sure, it's a license for version 2. It does not explicitly include any future ones - and I don't think it even covers the previous version.

So, you'll be able to install and run this one indefinitely and in the even that the company decides to shut down the activation servers they'll probably pull an Adobe (CS2) or Avid (Media Illusion, my gawd - has it been this long? ) and make a patch available that skips the licensing check.

This company has been bought out a while back, after all. We've seen this whole corporate-merger playbook before, haven't we? In this case a company with a particularly old-fashioned approach to licensing got bought by the new guys.

I purchased my license directly from Affinity and not the App Store, so I hope that they honor the lifetime license. That being said, I don't think the new owners are obligated to honor the previous owner's license? If not, I will be researching whether there is grounds for a class action lawsuit against the original licensor. All this is just speculation until they reveal the big secret on Oct 30th.

 

[th0masp]

I purchased my license directly from Affinity and not the App Store, so I hope that they honor the lifetime license. That being said, I don't think the new owners are obligated to honor the previous owner's license? If not, I will be researching whether there is grounds for a class action lawsuit against the original licensor. All this is just speculation until they reveal the big secret on Oct 30th.

Yes they will have to honor your license even if the ownership has changed. As I said, one way to deal with it easy-peasy is to simply issue a patch that turns off licensing checks.

What they are not obligated to do however is to support it anymore going forward if they are moving on from release 2.x. So while you may have a lifetime license, the hardware/OS-compatibility to actually make use of it is another matter - and entirely up to you.

With Apple it tends to be a swift affair before you run into compatibility trouble on newer OS releases.

 

[Dolphins1972]

What they are not obligated to do however is to support it anymore going forward if they are moving on from release 2.x. So while you may have a lifetime license, the hardware/OS-compatibility to actually make use of it is another matter - and entirely up to you.

Welp, I've been modding my MP 4,1 for more than ten years now, so I'm very familiar with "hardware/OS-compatibility" and the fight to keep them running with the latest OS. Now I'm not saying that I have not hit some insurmountable walls because I have, but in most cases I've been able to find workarounds due to the hard work of others such as hardware/software engineers.