Waves doesn't, and now, even if you bought licenses, once you upgrade computers (as we all have to do at some point), those Waves plugins are dead as you'll have to perpetually subscribe to use them since they killed the update plan (which was already terrible, but at least it wasn't perpetually necessary to use their products updating once or twice per computer is almost reasonable by comparison). With other companies, most of the time when you buy a license it includes updates. If there is enough noise and pushback it doesn't have to be a done deal, but it would take an organized effort for sure. If anything, I think the best move forward is to send a bunch of emails to them, and to get a petition going around to show the anger. They aren't so out of touch that they didn't know how we'd respond, it's that the profits outweigh whatever damage to their "reputation" we can do to them.
They pulled the rug from under every single person who has ever put money down on a bundle and locked the perpetual software behind a subscription model and it's a pretty dirty and disingenuous thing to do.
Isn't there some consumer protections for this sort of thing? I feel like this is definitely very very scummy. When I went in and bought the products I had no issue paying the WUP each year, but being expected to pay a monthly fee is ridiculous and is legitimately predatory behavior by a company when they were selling perpetual licenses and a monthly sub was never an expectation beforehand. I will happily pay the WUP each year as that was the agreement going into the purchase. If this is how they are going to treat their customers I will be moving to other plugin developers for my plugins.Īnd realistically, at this point if my Waves plugins that I bought stop working I will resort to pirating them before I pay them a monthly fee. I bought their Mercury bundle when it was for sale.
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