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(Customer from the very beginning for Designer&Photo, made a book with Publisher)

They will move to subscriptions (there will be many more of these moves, see VMWare), which will kill their differenitation towards Adobe and kill the product. If subscription, I can use Illustrator (which has 10x more tutorials than Designer). Most companies screw up M&A.

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If the pricing model is the only thing that differentiates Affinity then that wouldn’t have been a very good sign for their future

As a happy Affinity customer and relatively casual user I prefer them because of their reasonable fixed prices and because and I don't have to run the abomination that is the Adobe Cloud client on my machine.

If they switch to a subscription model I will definitely be looking for alternatives.

It's clearly enough for many people. That's the only reason I use Affinity, although I do agree Adobe could change their pricing models overnight and they would be in trouble.

Me too.

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