It's simply that personally, I tend to suspect that there are considerably fewer of those finely price-sensitive circumstances than people on this forum seem to think. There may well be users and circumstances where buying at the regular price fails an appropriate cost-benefit analysis, but buying at some particular discounted prices satisfied an appropriate cost-benefit analysis.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for a particular answer. But to refine the thought exercise for your circumstances: if Affinity Photo 2 provides enough benefit over the Affinity Photo 1 that you currently have to justify your paying $42 for the update, then is that benefit enough to justify your paying an additional $28 to get it (maybe, we don't really know) five months sooner?

The relevant question is: do you want to do without AP 2 for the next almost five months to save $28?įor those having an older version of the software in question (Affinity Photo or DxO PhotoLab or whatever), yes, typically you can keep using the old version. Suppose it will go in sale in the middle of the year, again for $42. Aging products may go on sale more frequently than more recent ones.īut as a thought exercise for anyone waiting for a sale from Serif (or DxO or whatever): I think I paid $42 for AP 2 currently it costs $70. AP 1 was seven years old (Windows version six years old) when replaced. I can't promise that will happen again, given the recent introduction of AP 2. In recent years Serif seems to have put Affinity Photo on sale multiple times per year. I don't like to buy like that on the strange computer. I could not buy it at $40 sell because I was out of the country.

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