#now the subscription is a flat out scam just do not pay for that tbh literally there is no reason to

[cheddar-baby]

Hoping people read the clip studio subscription update notes because in the twitter thread about them im seeing tons of people really jumping the shark from 0-100. So here is the cliff notes of it.

-Clip studio is putting out a new version called 2.0 (idk what the features are to warrant it being 2.0 it doesn't seem like they've announced that yet)

-2.0 has its own "update pass" which you can pay a yearly or monthly subscription fee to update your 1.0 to this new version. This is what people are angry about.

-2.0 also comes with the perpetual one time purchase just like 1.0 has. Assuming it lines up with how 1.0 is sold it will come on sale often and cost you around $35 (but again i don't know it hasnt been confirmed)

-It looks like when they move into 2.1 onwards you might either need to get the subscription or do a one time payment (it isnt worded super clearly) but you will have access to the 2.0 features and future security/bug fixes. This is also what people are angry about

-You can continue to use 1.0 without any extra money put into clip studio and it will get future safety and bug fix updates but will not get big feature updates.

-a 3.0 clip studio was also vaguely announced and seems to follow the same system of either having a subscription update or a perpetual one time payment (but it isnt clear).

-as always if this isnt something you like, can afford or want to even pay for just pirate the software.

I think there is a good bit to side eye about the update and program subscription models are just god awful in general so i totally understand people being upset. But you can get 2.0 as a one time purchase and im hoping if they're doing this the reason is that its a big actually valuable update but we'll have to wait and see. But i think the biggest take away is if you own clip studio already you DO NOT need to swap to subscription to keep using your program you paid for it and own it (as much as you can with digital software) and they will be doing support updates to keep it functioning.