musicman100
So TMLIFYO, you can buy from a retailer today, hopefully receive the code today, BUT wait to "redeem" the code a week or a month, your subscription starts that day.
I dont see a reason to wait, however. The CC will push down any patches etc as soon as they are released,
The only thing early registration may lose if say the next big update comes 12 months and 1 day aftera 12 month upfront registration, but you can renew for one month and gain the update.
So two advantages.
1) wait for initial bugs to be squashed (as you noiticed)
2) take advantage of the reduced offer now, but redeem in 1 months and you have everything from the system ie features (not 3rd party plugs) and bug fixes up to month 13.
The scenario of next years offer being made available on Month 12, when you are due to renew on month 13 means
a) you take it early, and gained nothing financially, but the experiment lost nothing financially. You did loose the opportunity to immediately but escaped some bugs.
b) You order again through a 3rd party, receive that code and sit on it for a month. If any features are held for a for a this release, then they would have had a chance for some bug fixing too.
But with this new model of things rolling out, maybe this is the end to release offers, as their may not be a release, unless of course and annual release is reflected in new bundles.
BTW, received my Redeem code from JRR too. I would say that's a weight off my mind, but being I bought an XLN AD2 double adpak offer from them in December, I had faith. My J bass, on the way from Thomann in germany however, that makes me nervous.