This is the main reason I’m extremely reluctant to purchase ArtRage Vitae at this point, because I do not understand the scope of what I am actually buying. If ArtRage Vitae really stays as one version in the app stores, and you only pay once and for all future updates - as has been stated by Andy in this forum - how is Ambient’s plan to ever finance future upgrades, once the ArtRage community has switched to ArtRage Vitae and paid it once? I find this extremely fishy to be frank and I don’t see that it will work this way. Most disturbingly, with the App Store scheme now, the whole thing seems not sustainable for Ambient Design for me. I could even use ArtRage on Linux under Wine and it worked fine! This option is now gone for good, which is quite sad. At the same time, I had full control whether I wanted to update and had full freedom over the purchased software without being tied so some form of app store that can change without notice in any future OS update and make my current purchases unusable. With the traditional versioning scheme, I was able to buy a new version of ArtRage every x years, and I would gladly do so. But there seem to be so many unanswered questions. I understand the argument that serial numbers and updating might be cumbersome for a certain small group of people. But that’s just my feeling.Īs a long time user of ArtRage, the goals behinds switching to app stores are very unclear to me. Any other odd name like ArtRage Pro would have worked better IMHO. To put it mildly, to me this name is not exactly amenable to getting my attention and making me want to transition and feel "yes, I want to have this". It’s neither easy to pronounce nor catchy. ArtRage Vitae is really a strange name for this project of transitioning ArtRage to a new platform like the app stores.
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