Waves subscription plans announced

Waves have announced on their website new subscription plans:

https://www.waves.com/subscriptions

They call "subscription" what Cakewalk was calling "membership"
For Platinum I remember "super deal" last year - $136...

This marketing angle seems to be aimed at the "math challenged". It will only cost you $25.50 or so a month to go on the "One Plugin A Month Until I have All The Plugins I want/Need" plan. I was on that sucker for over a year and didn't even know it. 

I never saw any other DAW offer a subscription/membership/rent-to-own plan before CW did it. I may be wrong. I don't get out much. ; )
 
Also, I pointed out that I was talking about in the AUDIO Industry, not all of computing software.
 
 

They've had a subscription plan for some time.

Jesse G
If they waited for each plugin to go on sale for $29 and then got them from everyplugin.com, they would make out better,   LOL 

Even better with bundles. Gold has been had for $100ish, the upgrade from Gold to Platinum has been below $100. That's 50 (mostly $29) plugins at $2 each.
 
Rocky

dcumpian

bluzdog

Jesse G
If they waited for each plugin to go on sale for $29 and then got them from everyplugin.com, they would make out better,   LOL 

Even better with bundles. Gold has been had for $100ish, the upgrade from Gold to Platinum has been below $100. That's 50 (mostly $29) plugins at $2 each.
 
Rocky

Yep. This "plan" is a bad deal unless you just want to try them out. But demos are free so it still doesn't make any sense.
 
Dan

 
Not to us. But evidently, someone is buying. With all these subscription/rent-to-own plans out there, has to be a reason we just don't see.
 
I ain't buying the subscription plan. I ain't buying no more unless it's the new $29 deal. I have bought some of the newly introduced stuff at 'intro' prices only to see it offered for $29 maybe a month or two later. Like the Shepps Omni Channel. Paid I think $49 for that when it came out thinking it was really good and no way would it go on sale for $29. We all know how wrong I was on that!
 
So I passed on a few of them like Brauer Motion, Torque, and the F6 EQ, Smack Attack. Hoping they would go on the $29 sale. Sure enough, they did.
 
Like the rest of ya'll, I don't see any benefit in the subscription model. But because they are offering it (like many others), means somebody is buying it!!

Grem

dcumpian

bluzdog

Jesse G
If they waited for each plugin to go on sale for $29 and then got them from everyplugin.com, they would make out better,   LOL 

Even better with bundles. Gold has been had for $100ish, the upgrade from Gold to Platinum has been below $100. That's 50 (mostly $29) plugins at $2 each.
 
Rocky

Yep. This "plan" is a bad deal unless you just want to try them out. But demos are free so it still doesn't make any sense.
 
Dan

 
Not to us. But evidently, someone is buying. With all these subscription/rent-to-own plans out there, has to be a reason we just don't see.
 
I ain't buying the subscription plan. I ain't buying no more unless it's the new $29 deal. I have bought some of the newly introduced stuff at 'intro' prices only to see it offered for $29 maybe a month or two later. Like the Shepps Omni Channel. Paid I think $49 for that when it came out thinking it was really good and no way would it go on sale for $29. We all know how wrong I was on that!
 
So I passed on a few of them like Brauer Motion, Torque, and the F6 EQ, Smack Attack. Hoping they would go on the $29 sale. Sure enough, they did.
 
Like the rest of ya'll, I don't see any benefit in the subscription model. But because they are offering it (like many others), means somebody is buying it!!

I'm with you Michael, but autos, homes, furniture and appliances have been sold to folks focused more on "how much a month" than the total price for decades.

∞

 I was rong?

I guess one thing you can say about Waves, they called it what it was, they didn't try to obfuscate the facts over and over and over . . .

Matron Landslide
I guess one thing you can say about Waves, they called it what it was, they didn't try to obfuscate the facts over and over and over . . .


With regards the Waves Subscription
 
It's not a Subscription . . . it's 'Rent To Own'!!  (Sound familiar) Copyright Wibbles

Matron,
I know the Studio One forums are as dead as disco so you'd get no audience there, but your constant CW trolling here is aimed at the wrong company. The company you feel wronged by, Gibson, is gone (Well, for all intents and purposes).  Why not take your rants over to KVR where you'll at least be somewhat appreciated?  

I am still waiting for Waves dropping their odd Waves shell technology. I really don't like such exotic concepts that obscure the plugin installations and not least slow down project loading (plugin loading) and plugin scanning.
 
Marc

Grem

CbB is the slowest scanning plugins. Reaper ain't that speedy either. SO3 is really fast for scanning plugins.

My experience as well.  However, I added Abbey Plates during the $29 sale.  SO4 didn't pick it up until I went to browser>home>Update Plug-ins.  THEN it gave a message that Waveshellblahblahblah would be re-scanned on next startup of SO.
 
Other plugs I've added have been picked up automatically on startup without that step.

Grem
Maybe that's the reason SO can scan so fast. It's not looking for new stuff. Just the stuff it knows about.

It has found other VSTs without the extra step.  It appears to me that they're treating Waves differently.