[noiseboyuk]

The sound effects are worth having if you work in post and you don't already have them - there's no restriction on you remaining current with subs either. I don't know about all the plugins - are they all AAX format only? Is every license restricted and tied to a support plan as it used to be with Falcon?

The headline value of £2,000 is silly of course, but it's the same game almost everyone else plays.

TBH the main interest here is the messaging, not the content - perpetual customers are being "brought into the fold", and no longer treated like 2nd class customers. A small crumb of comfort perhaps. But it's pretty clear that the reason for that is that more and more perpetual license-owners are seeing how much they have to fork out every year for such meagre rewards, it was the cheapest and simplest way to entice a few more people to stay current.

Like others here, I don't rely on anything tied, effectively, to a subscription. Falcon was the biggest beast they had - now gone - but even there it was effectively subs and PT only, so wasn't any use to me (my composing work is done in Cubase).