Oh man, as more I read on this new lifetime model, as more I get confused. Btw, english isn't my native language and translating all your stuff makes it more harder to understand.
 
Ok, here's my current summary of what I've understand.
 
Currently I'm on Platinum membership with anual payment and I'm lucky with that.
What I get are core feature updates and fixes. Some addons like Drum-Replacer or Vocalsync are included in this kind of membership. Any extras like Concrete Limiter or Rapture Pro for example are not included, I've bought them seperatly.
 
With the new lifetime membership I will get core updates and fixed. I'll not get any things declared as addons, I've to buy them seperately.
 
Correct?
 
When I switch over to Lifetime model, can I go back at any time to the normal Platinum membership?
 
-Markus

When I switch over to Lifetime model, can I go back at any time to the normal Platinum membership?
 

 
What, simply start paying more money for the hell of it?
 
Why on earth would you even consider it? I might be missing the point (as usual) but once you've paid for lifetime I can think of no reasonable scenario why you would want to revert to annual.
If you just want to give money away, I'll give you my Paypal details 

mdages
Currently I'm on Platinum membership with anual payment and I'm lucky with that.
What I get are core feature updates and fixes. Some addons like Drum-Replacer or Vocalsync are included in this kind of membership. Any extras like Concrete Limiter or Rapture Pro for example are not included, I've bought them seperatly.
 With the new lifetime membership I will get core updates and fixed. I'll not get any things declared as addons, I've to buy them seperately.

 
What you get with Lifetime is *exactly the same* as what you would get if you would renew year after year after year, etc...
 

mdages
When I switch over to Lifetime model, can I go back at any time to the normal Platinum membership?

 
Since you get exactly the same in Lifetime as in Yearly, there is absolutely no point in going back to 'normal Platinum', unless you feel like throwing away money (or sponsoring Cakewalk).
 

mdages
Oh man, as more I read on this new lifetime model, as more I get confused. Btw, english isn't my native language and translating all your stuff makes it more harder to understand.
 ....

CW have been clear about this for a while now. There will be no difference between lifetime platinum upates and non-lifetime platinum updates. They will be the same. The only difference between lifetime and non-lifetime, is exactly that. One is time-unlimited. End of story. The amount of confusion here (not just you, and not just non-native English speakers either, so don't feel bad, lots of people have been confused) around the term 'core updates' has been mindblowing. CW just needed to be clear that they will still, as they always have done, make and sell products that are not included in Platinum. Current examples are Rapture Pro, Concrete Limiter, and so on. But the actual updates will be the same for all Platinum members. So there would be no reason to start paying for Platinum again because there is no difference between lifetime and non-lifetime except that one you pay for once and never again, and the other you keep paying for. 
 

It certainly has been a fractious environment since the lifetime upgrade offer was announced. I've read through most of the related threads on these forums just now and can see both sides of the fence:
 
1 - the long standing Sonarians who have chosen to purchase Platinum life time upgrades are concerned that they might miss out on some additional content offered to upgraders/new customers who make their purchase after 31/8/16. Based on the responses we have had from CW to date, such fears appear to be groundless i.e. all Platinum users will get the same rolling updates as and when they become available. Yes, this means that annual/monthly Platinum members will be paying more than those on lifetime upgrades, but a sale offer is by definition time limited. My understanding of the pricing model is that those who upgrade to Platinum will receive the same additional content as those who purchase Platinum outright as a new customer i.e. Drum Replacer, Vocal Sync, Dimension Pro and Rapture (full versions), Analog Track Box, Breverb, PX64, TS64, VX64, Tone2 Bitfilter2, Lounge Lizard, Strum Session 2, True Pianos Amber and Ultra Analog Session2.
 
2 - CW cannot possibly confirm what additional content may be available for any tier of Sonar users in the future (as this content will only be in the development stage but it seems more than likely that additional instruments, FX, console strips etc will not automatically be included in the rolling updates i.e. they will be offered as separate purchases with a possible discount for existing customers) There is more than sufficient confirmed content info available in the store now with which to make a purchasing/upgrade decision.

I probably wont be around by 2037  so I guess  I will have to make  a will and will my  beloved Sonar Platinum. LOL

<edit> I now understand how I have misunderstood the earliest post by Noel and so I have removed my incorrect caveat.

fitzj
I probably wont be around by 2037 so I guess  I will have to make  a will and will my  beloved Sonar Platinum. LOL

SONAR licenses are non-transferable.
 
But I know you know that.

bapu
 
Caveat:
 
Annual Platinum users will likely get 3rd Party add-on product s that life timers will not.
 
Not always 100% exact but close enough that (almost) anyone should be able to understand that.

What are you basing this on? To me it directly contradicts what Andrew and others from CW have expressly stated, which is that updates for lifetime members and annual/monthly Platinum members will be identical. Of course I don't have a crystal ball to say what will happen and what won't, but to me if that were the case I would feel we had been lied to. I probably wouldn't cry in my beer about it, but it would explicitly contradict the terms under which I accepted the offer. 

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