It’s left some longtime fans who praised it for its one-time purchase model feeling very betrayed.Īn announcement on the Clip Studio website states that “from 2023 onwards, the current Version 1 (the one-time purchase, perpetual version for Windows/macOS, ‘Version 1.x’ hereafter), offered as a download and physical version will no longer receive feature updates free of charge.” People who are already on the existing monthly subscription will have access to all updates.Īnyone of the first 2 groups can subscribe to an annual Update Pass to get access to updates for one year, if the user doesn't renew the Update Pass the software would get downgraded to the last owned version.Ĭelsys announced version 2.0 of Clip Studio Paint, its popular digital illustration and animation software, alongside plans to move over to a monthly subscription for updates to the service when it launches. 2.0 will have access only to stability updates, no feature updates at all.

2.0 release(H1 2023), and stability updates until the 3.0 release.

The new system would work the following way:Ĭurrent license owners would receive features updates until the last update before the Ver. Celsys, company who makes the software, released the following image to illustrate their new business model: Clip Studio Paint is popular between artists in great part due to its Comic/Illustration focused feature set and single-time purchase model, so the new model is being heavily criticized by the users. Popular illustration software Clip Studio Paint announced this week that starting from version 2.0 it's going to be changing its business model, making subscriptions more prominent.

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