As explained in another thread (in response to http://forum.cakewalk.com/I-payed-for-22018-to-22019-two-weeks-ago-so-I-payed-for-nothing-m3690952.aspx), I paid 115 euros for a lifetime update that last 2 days! So there is no way for me to pay a euro more now.

No, I already paid.

Yes - I also would pay, instead of my livetime updates.
We continue using SONAR, but we have an eye on other DAWs now. For digitizing tapes and vinyl we need a special workflow. To change the DAW in a running business is very expensive.
If we go to Cubase we had to buy 4 licences and yearly updates. Cakewalk SONAR was too cheap.

I think I generally pay about a hundred dollars per year since I get every new version. I would happily continue paying that or more. It's an entire recording studio on my computer.
I've been using it since 2000.
I've actually been saying for years that they should have been charging more. When I think of all the money I've spent on my studio, the centerpiece, sonar, has only been a tiny fraction of the expense.

No.  I paid the "lifetime" and apparently the "lifetime" is over.  If we paid and it was kept going, for how long?
I have a version of Studio One 3, that I got with a Presonus purchase, that I never did anything with but I'm going to start learning it.  
 

Think of it this way....a company makes hammers, a very nice hammer and sells them for $50 each. After a while business slows down so the owner of the company decides he needs to make more money, so he goes after all his customers who bought one of the hammers and says I'll sell you a new hammer for $40. The customers balk and say the first hammer still works fine, so there's no need to buy a second hammer. Desperate for cash, the owner decides offer a free hammer every year for life for one time $60.00 fee. Many of the old customers decide to buy the new deal....the owner makes a lot of money and leaves town, leaving the customers without any more new hammers. So they go back to using their old hammers, but they are out the money for the newer hammers. Company number 2 comes into town and tries to sell really nice hammers for $70 and company number three says I'll sell a similar hammer for $35. The smarter customers just keep using the original hammer and don't buy anything, while the dumber customers think they're getting a bargain at $35. The poor suckers who buy the $70 hammers, now have $180 worth of hammers. How many hammers does a guy need ?? Then all of a sudden people stop buying houses and all the customers stop using their hammers. They can't sell their hammers because each of the companies made it illegal to re-sell their hammers. So the hammers all end up in somebodies basements sitting idle, while the companies owners have all left town with the money....sound familiar ?? Is this a new fangled business plan or just monkey business ?? 

I believe that because of needing cash, Gibson has pushed the bakers out of the way and have taken the code to sell it to the highest bidder. Including Microsoft.

Infantile shallow analysis...par for the course as humanity sucks these days... thats why, as a species, we're pretty much done for...
 
I'll b transitioning to the cubase forum...theres still children hoping for a better world... music is a lever... whining don't do jack, especially when its misdirected and impactless...
 
I'll keep my ear open hoping Magix grabs this lovely daw, like Vegas...
 
Will burn my Gibson in the next community bondfire...
 
In the mean time, I'll enjoy figuring out why so many love to wield cubase! 

Well if Cakewalk is going to re-nig on their updates then we should have the right to re-sell our software to re-coup our money or leave it to another party when we die. 

Throwing good money after bad if you ask me.
 
I mean - they couldn't make a go of it already.  How many people, studios, etc are going to jump ship reducing the number of users even more? 
 
Maybe if it was a few person operation - but not sure that's even possible.