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I hope they don't treat this as just recurring revenue opportunity. The thing that bothers me the most about this is that they are switching to a SaaS model, but only offering 2 different options. I think they are blowing a major opportunity for both increasing revenue and to expand the opportunities for the users. I have a feeling if they continue down the path they are heading, they will actually end up losing money instead of increasing revenue. I believe that if they offered monthly access to additional features such as rendering, larger number of drawing sheets, drawing blocks, etc. (for a fee of course) Ability to download the other libraries and use them? Maybe offer different tiers of the software for different rates that offer more than what the current offerings? I think they could actually make this a good thing if they approach it from the customer perspective. I know everyone is getting super tired of having to pay monthly subscription fees for things we used to be able to own outright, but if they actually increase the value to the users instead of just trying to increase revenue, I think this could be a win-win.

I think what a lot of us are wondering is if we do decide to purchase the 2026 license occasionally, will we still be able to keep accessing our 2025 perpetual license? Will they be treated as 2 separate licenses, or if we do purchase the 2026 license will we lose access to our perpetual 2025 license? I think that's why @barthmv mentioned a stand-alone license. Or would we have to have 2 different licenses? Log-in as 2 different users? I am also very interested to see the monthly fee for this version of the software. Thanks in advance for the clarification.

Quick question.........Will it still be possible to finish monthly payments (4 of 12) for purchasing Home Designer Pro 2025 license WITHOUT having to update to the 2026 subscription based license? If so...........I'm assuming at that point, no updates for perpetual licenses ever again without monthly subscription payments?