What attracts me on the WUP is that you get free plugins.
 
 

Waves is cool as far as quality, but the ethos, karma, whatever is in the dark ages.
 
Dumped those bastards after they refused to activate my cheap GT Solo plug. They sent an email and graciously offered that they would not invade my computer and deactivate the plug, but they were cutting off future activations, transfers. New rules. Didn't say this in the initial purchase.
 
The jerks did say that they felt my pain, and I could go back to the original license contract they were soliciting for a mere $20 more. What's $20 betwween friends.
 
Was not the money issue, and those thieves can sit on my middle finger and twirl, if they remotely deserve the honor.
 
Downloaded the cracked GT available everywhere. Me and Waves coexist in peace as I clean my finger from their contamination..
 
WUP is a mind blowing joke at the insane prices. So many, many, many beautiful, highest quality plugs that can do anything Waves can do with no crap, no extortion, no changing the contract after they have your currency in their bank.
 
Think I'll pass on this one, but don't have nothing but cracked GT3 to upgrade.
 
Aborting their garbage WUP is a No Brainer.
 
John

I have the Gold bundle.  My email said $72+change to add a year to my plan ...

It occurs to me that the people making the most money in the music business (maybe the only people making money) are those who provide the software and hardware tools (including instruments) for making music.
 
I think we all have the wrong hobby. :(

sharke
I have the Gold bundle plus a couple of other Waves plugins. The price they gave me for an update plan was a little over $250. I paid $300 or so for the bundle in a sale. There is no way on this earth I would pay Waves $250 for updates especially given that many of the plugins in the bundle they have no intention of ever bringing up to date with modern UI's etc. I love the plugins I have and use them all the time, but Waves' update philosophy and pricing is an unequivocal rip off. 

+1

I think the guys at Waves must hit the crack pipe hard and often.

"Get your money for nothin', and your checks for free" Dire Straits

Nope...sorry Koby...you don't get "free" plugins. You MIGHT get one or two heavily discounted plugins but you could probably pick even those up at an even more discounted price if you just wait a bit. And you are still paying something for them via the WUP. I don't fault Waves for this...it's much like all the new subscription services that everyone seems to be offering. The only difference is that most of the new subscription services guarantee you new plugs, features, etc... On a monthly or yearly basis. In all my years of WUP I have received exactly ONE new plugin...Maserati Group.

It's actually kind of odd that Waves has kept the WUP system. They used to have high prices, intransigent copy protection and draconian upgrade paths. In the last several years they have realized that to compete in the current environment they must come down from their high horse and start selling things at reasonable prices which includes having enticing sales on a very regular basis. This they have done. Kudos. I suspect the WUP will follow suit for, as you can see from the above comments, (and countless others on many other forums) it is roundly vilified by one and all.

In short, Waves WUP sucks. And, with the possible exception of the random Mercury owner, I challenge you to find anyone to gainsay that statement.

 
I agree about the Mercury (BTW: I meant "Extra" rather than "Free").
 
msorells stated nicely on another thread:
Only WUP if you are getting something out of it, like added things to a bundle etc.
 

At this point I'm wondering if version 10 will kill off V9. That's another shady trend I'm seeing in software these days. It would appear that milking existing customers is more profitable than getting new ones. 

Pragi
C mon gents,
can anybody here declare the waves WUP a joke ?
Imo it is......

This is where I was going with my original post.  I'm starting to feel like WUP is a form of ransom ware.

Ransom ware, that fits.