No Upgrade from Vegas Pro 14?

[Flowmad]

I've bought Vegas Pro 14 a while ago and i just noticed the new version on Steam but there isn't an option to upgrade from the previous version. Will this be added later or do we have to buy it full price again? Would love to know!

[vagenda]

I recall promises of an upgrade path for those of us who had, at the time, recently bought Vegas Pro 13 shortly before SONY sold it to MAGIX. It never materialized. I'll be staying with 13 unless that promise comes to pass. It could be they just don't want the money that could come from an UPGRADE path and would rather gamble on people being willing to pay full version prices every release. Good luck with that.

[Flowmad]

That is a shame, i would have liked to upgrade because 15 seems to be great and much better than 14. Hopefully they change their minds and add it later, because i'll never going to buy it full price again. The only thing i could do is waiting for a sale on Steam and "upgrade" it that way.

[Som]

Escrito originalmente por Flowmad:

That is a shame, i would have liked to upgrade because 15 seems to be great and much better than 14. Hopefully they change their minds and add it later, because i'll never going to buy it full price again. The only thing i could do is waiting for a sale on Steam and "upgrade" it that way.

I second that.

[Som]

It is indeed unfortunate to notice that the Company really dosn't care about the old customers regarding the pricing and the upgrade option.

Also from my personal experience here on Steam I have a very poor experience about their technical support ( in one of the versions of Vegas).

In my humble opinion, here are some of my observations...

1. The offerings/ features of Vegas are getting saturated. May be the devs are running out of ideas?
The GPU assisted Preview / rendering is a must have feature for any "pro" level software.
I am a vegas Pro 14 user and I failed to notice that much difference in Vegas 15 ( except some more Hardware optimization feature and may be some extra support for file formats and that PIP thingy that most pro / semi pro grade Video Editors offer in template form. )
And you included the same pre-existent "bezier Curve" masking feature in the list of new features in Vegas Pro 15.


2. I purchased Vegas pro 14 only two months ago I guess and now, I have no upgrade option for Vegas Pro 15. So, as of now, I will have to pay the full price of "Pro" version 15 to purchase the new version and trash "Pro" Version 14 ( like I already did with Vegas 13 Platinum).

Do you really think you will be getting a good business here or anywhere by ignoring your old / returning customers?

I bought quite a few premium software here on steam by spending my real hard earned money like innumerable other people and I am really satisfied with the pricing policy for the old customers and upgrade options of other companies e.g. Cakewalk. And I will happily upgrade to their future versions as and when required.

But for your "Vegas Pro 15" I always will give it a second thought and reconsider some other identical alternatives that are available at the fraction of the price of Vegas.

Hope you are listening.

[Madfish]

If they don't offer an upgrade path I'll just "upgrade" to Adobe Premiere.

It's really, really bad practice to have customers (re)buy releases from scratch since you'll not get an entirely new product but only additions and changes. I'm sick of this really.

Additionally, with the Steam version you can't even sell older licenses anymore. So there is even less incentive.

I guess it's time to dump Vegas and spend the money elsewhere.

[Som]

Escrito originalmente por Madfish:

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It's really, really bad practice to have customers (re)buy releases from scratch since you'll not get an entirely new product but only additions and changes. I'm sick of this really.

Additionally, with the Steam version you can't even sell older licenses anymore. So there is even less incentive.

I guess it's time to dump Vegas and spend the money elsewhere.

Yes, I have the identical feeling of dumping Vegas straightaway too and switch to some real "pro" grade Industry standard software as you mentioned and that is being used in the production houses world wide.

[wakeme]

Escrito originalmente por Som:

Escrito originalmente por Madfish:

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It's really, really bad practice to have customers (re)buy releases from scratch since you'll not get an entirely new product but only additions and changes. I'm sick of this really.

Additionally, with the Steam version you can't even sell older licenses anymore. So there is even less incentive.

I guess it's time to dump Vegas and spend the money elsewhere.

Yes, I have the identical feeling of dumping Vegas straightaway too and switch to some real "pro" grade Industry standard software as you mentioned and that is being used in the production houses world wide.

i wouldn't dump Vegas nor Movie Studio Platinum ,...but i have been looking at
"Hitfilm Pro 2017"

Magix's web site sells it . ( bottom of page , or Add-on products )

seems , lots of peeps use Hitfilm Pro with Vegas .
Hitfilm has some killer features like Geomtry Importing ,
to do Real CG compositing .

P.S.
when Vegas 15 , first posted on Steam , it was 199 .
that was an Upgrade price ,...although it can't be had on
any moments notice , at that price .
Not officially an Upgrade , but that price certainly was
at an Upgrade level Price .

[Nier]

... Upgrade path please.

[Simon]

Would be cool if Magix could provide a statement here, I bought Vegas 14 on Steam and i also want to upgrade but i dont have a serial number.

[Veniamin_kHz]

+1 to upgrade.

[wakeme]

you can get Vegas Pro Edit 15 , right now for 99.75

what excactly are you looking for ?

if you don't get it at that price , than you don't even want it .

i will say it another way :
if Magix offered Vegas Pro Edit 15 , for 99.75 as an upgrade
from Vegas Pro Edit 14 , ,...would you get Vegas Pro Edit 15 ?

there is one big advantage to Steam .
if someone gets Vegas 15 , and something they don't like ,
Vegas 14 continues to run .
getting Vegas 15 on Steam will NOT replace\remove\disable Vegas 14 .

Upgrades always remove\disable previous versions

[Flowmad]

Escrito originalmente por wakeme:

you can get Vegas Pro Edit 15 , right now for 99.75

what excactly are you looking for ?

if you don't get it at that price , than you don't even want it .

i will say it another way :
if Magix offered Vegas Pro Edit 15 , for 99.75 as an upgrade
from Vegas Pro Edit 14 , ,...would you get Vegas Pro Edit 15 ?

there is one big advantage to Steam .
if someone gets Vegas 15 , and something they don't like ,
Vegas 14 continues to run .
getting Vegas 15 on Steam will NOT replace\remove\disable Vegas 14 .

Upgrades always remove\disable previous versions

To answer your question; yes i want it and i would have bought it for 99.75 in a heartbeat. Problem just is that i'm really low on money right now, so unfortinately i can't even afford it for the discounted price. I actually think thats the perfect price to upgrade right now.

Like i said befor, i don't mind waiting for a discount to use that to basically "upgrade" and i also find it better to still be able to use the previous version after getting the new one. But what Magix could do instead of the upgrade option is offering a permanent discount for those who own the old version, this way it doesn't get replaced.

Also upgrading on Steam doesn't necessarely mean that the old version just goes away. I've upgraded a couple times on Steam and the old versions always remained in my library, Dark Souls 2 for example.

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Bump for Upgrade

[Mr_Jatt]

just bought recent 20$ for vegas 14 pro edition

[Madfish]

Like many others I bought this for 400$. Even on sale it would be expensive still. Recently they threw this away for 20$ in a humble bundle though meaning there is millions of legit keys out there now.

That means I don't see they will ever release a statement regarding this issue and will just try to hide this under the carpet.

Personally I'll blacklist MAGIX Software GmbH though. No more purchases from me.

That was an ugly move to show long time supporters and customers they care about nothing else than pulling people into their ecosystem believing they will then be too lazy to swap to another product.