V21 to V22 Upgrade
Just received an e-mail offering me a 20% discount on an upgrade from V21 to V22 of capture One when it is released in early December. Clicked through a little way and found the upgrade price is £199.00 (£159.00 with discount). I shall wait and see what offer is available on BlackFriday/Cyber Monday (usually 25 to 30%) or even until launch day when various discount codes appear on CO Ambassadors web sites.
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What I noticed about the version 22 upgrade offer is that they have raised the base price of the license upgrade by 25% - from $US159 last year to $US199 this year - and THEN applied a 20% discount, which results in this year's discounted price being identical to last year's base price.
Last year I saved $32.80 on my version upgrade. This year, C1 apparently wants its money back.
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It is unlikely that I will go for the upgrade this year. I am not taking too many photographs at the moment or over the past year and a half, and for the photography I am doing my current version (21) does the job. I also use DXO photolab and their upgrade pricing is a lot more reasonable, C1 prices take the P. I like the app and what it does but for the saving I get in the upgrade price I may as well wait until I need to upgrade, for example when buying a new camera, and save the money in the interim period. C1 need to give some incentive to their existing customers to keep upgrading, Dxo can seem to manage it, and will probably buy it as a result. C1 don't seem to be able to put a reasonable upgrade price forward to existing users, and the result is the loss of a sale.
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The other big difference was that last year when they pre-sold the licenses they didn't tell us that they had cut back from 3 machines to 2. It was only once I had already installed the thing that it became apparent. I am a single user with 3 machines. Desktop, main new laptop for location, second older laptop for backup.
You could say I could keep the backup machine on the old C1 20 license but that was switched off when 21 was switched on again without warning.
I work often in remote areas where there is NO internet. Remote Australia, Antarctica so the answer that I could log on and deactivate one machine and activate the other doesn't cut it. I am afraid this time that I will only have one machine working! I do understand that there may be a few people who 'share' licenses but there are also the professionals that this software is made for who need backup equipment with no fuss.
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Agree C1 upgrades are too expensive.
Only saving grace this time is that HDR and Panos will be a very big plus for many users as opposed to the almost incremental v20 to v21 upgrade.
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FYI, an additional 10% discount is available, at least today, to customers who enter one of several discount codes that are discoverable via a Google search. I made use of "NIKONRUMORS" when I made my purchase of an upgrade license to version 22 earlier today, but I found other codes in my Google search; the choice will be yours.
I can't believe that Black Friday discounts will exceed 30%, so this might be an optimal time to upgrade; at least it was for me.
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