Has Anyone Renewed Their Waves Plug-Ins

This seems to be a controversial subject. I'm not sure what I'll loose if I decide not to renew. It seems a bit expensive. 
What are the advantages other than future factory support?

Is there any way to tell if there are upgraded versions?  The functionality doesn't seem to exist in Waves Central. 

To the op , i upgrade only when benefical for me , understand here only when they added enoght great additional plugins to mercury for me to jump , alwayz dealing here with wavesuniverse for all my waves deal , super fast and pro , exellent support and commincation ..
If you own a bundle that has zero addition other time , the only beneficial thing to update would be only if your system need the last version for compatibility

No WUP, no sir.

They update individual Waves plugins all the time but it's not possible to check if something has a newer version.  They do have a webpage that lists changes, but it isn't detailed enough really:

http://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes
 
So once every month or so I use Waves Central to just download and install everything again.  That way I know I have the latest versions.  You don't need a valid WUP to get the latest version as long as the major version number hasn't changed (everything is v9 right now).  So until they release v10, only renew a WUP if you have a bundle and they added a new product to it.

Thanks for the tips on WUP everyone. I was curious if it would be worth it to pay for another year - I have the Platinum Bundle and a couple os signature Waves plugins. $300 seemed kind of steep for me. The forum has helped another person!

I own three bundles and one single plug: Mercury (the biggie), Abbey Road and SSL. The single plug is Mushroom pusher.
 
WUP last cost me ~225.00. It has always worked to my advantage and lately through happenstance I got 18 months of WUP at one shot.
 
How did that work?
 
Well, a yearly WUP adds 12 months to everything I own based on the last expiry date of any plug or bundle. So right now Mushrooms WUP expires Sept 2017 (because I bought it in Sept 2016 and came with one year of WUP), but everything else is WUPped until Feb 2018. Which I bought in April 2016.
 
"What?", you say, "How did an April 2016 WUP get you to Feb 2018?". Well ,it just so happens that when Abbey Road released an add on to that bundle that I snagged it at a sale price in Feb 2016 (because WUP had previously expired), that pushed my Abbey Road bundle (and only Abbey Road bundle) WUP out to Feb 2017.
 
Then when I purchased the "full" WUP in April 2016 for everything I own, Feb 2017 for Abbey Road became Feb 2018 for everything. That exercise got me every Greg Wells plug (and a coule more) in Mercury for free.
 
Now, I never did upgrade to the Abbey Road tape thing. And therein lies my next entry into ~18 months of WUP again. Which I'll address in 2018.
 
 

I have the same as bapu and if I do a WUP now I'm set till Jan 2019.

bapu
Yes you can Tim.

OK..

I had two bundles going circa 2002. I decided that WUP was a dumb move so I Waved goodbye. I guess if you update all your operating system and other software every year, then maybe? but I keep a system going for about ten years typically - kind of like a car.
 
Like if Ford had a WUP requirement. Really?  the Waves WUP is sort of like "leasing" the software., so you can get an updated car every year or so. Makes no sense to me.
 
there are just too many great plugins that compete with Waves now for this to make sense.
 
I do like my RenComp and the Vox thing, and the Mushroom Pusher.
 
Put the $300 Wup into buying some other cool stuff.
 
 
-Tom

emeraldsoul
I had two bundles going circa 2002. I decided that WUP was a dumb move so I Waved goodbye. I guess if you update all your operating system and other software every year, then maybe? but I keep a system going for about ten years typically - kind of like a car.
 
Like if Ford had a WUP requirement. Really?  the Waves WUP is sort of like "leasing" the software., so you can get an updated car every year or so. Makes no sense to me.
 
there are just too many great plugins that compete with Waves now for this to make sense.
 
I do like my RenComp and the Vox thing, and the Mushroom Pusher.
 
Put the $300 Wup into buying some other cool stuff.
 
 
-Tom

True, so true. Until they eventually do away with WUP.

I would like to see the WUP go away but I can't see them letting go the revenue stream. If they get 1000 people to WUP world wide...