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So does version 2 of Affinity Photo add support for AVIF? Can't find it listed on https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/full-feature-list/ (rather hard to search, since sections have to be uncollapsed one by one).

Strange price model where existing customers do not get an upgrade discount.

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Strange price model where existing customers do not get an upgrade discount.

I'm an existing customer, and I look at it as 40% off for existing customers to upgrade, and also 40% off for people upgrading from Adobe.

I bought Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer in May of this year, less than 6 months ago. Some companies that offer perpetual licenses would simply give me the upgrade to the next version for free since it came out within a year, and basically all of them would offer an upgrade discount that isn't simply a launch sale, into perpetuity.

The price is good for decent software but it's kind of discouraging me from wanting to upgrade, when their goal should be the exact opposite of that.

That's a strange way of reasoning..

Problem is that it's difficult to give discounts in the different App Stores so they give the discount to everyone

App stores? You can buy the apps directly.

This was one thing that annoyed me about Affinity as well, no AVIF or WEBP support. There are a number of threads on their forums asking for it, but Serif staff stopped responding to those a while ago.

Yeah I used them since some beta, and got the paid version almost immediately, also just to support some good competition against adobe malware suite.

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