Has Ambient Design given up on ArtRage Vitae?

[DarkOwnt]

The bought software life cycle used to include:

A. Major Version releases, which include improved features, capabilities which you pay for because you want them.. and you want them to be in good working order.

B. Updates (not upgrades) which are made to FIX errors, features that don't work, and any other problems with the software, because someone paid for "something", and that something is supposed to work as advertised/described. (software devs... especially the shadier ones -and not to exclude the big corps either- are pushing back on this common sense understanding of what it means when someone buys something)

I presume Devs apportion how much effort should be split between making the current software work right, and adding new features, based on what they think is necessary to find and more importantly keep customers.

[Freeware and Shareware of course just have "releases" which add things and fix things willy nilly at the same time.]


So when it comes to Vitae, of course I would have expected its release to include new features, which it did.

But until the next actual "Major" release, I would expect some portion of the development effort being spent on fixing issues. These would be pushed out (on the much touted Windows Store .. or whatever) as automatic updates for free until the next available Major Version release which will of course cost money for new and better features, and will of course NOT be an automatic update of any kind.


How many times has Vitae been updated ... how many times recently? What was fixed?

[nekomata]

How many times has Vitae been updated ... how many times recently? What was fixed?

apple store lists four updates for artrage vitae, between release date and oct. 28th, 2021. the current version is 7.1.4, and there were two updates within the first month following the release addressing crashing custom brushes when used in tiling canvas mode. that's pretty fast user support.

there was a deep bug purge with artrage vitae on iOs portables (latest release dated august, 2, 2022), and maybe some work on the android app too, but I can't access google play store from my location anymore, so there's that.

[whitehead]

Although I realise (for reasons I don't quite understand, as I have never had an issue) AR's move to the MS Store had its critics, choosing not to upgrade to Vitae but to expect a frequent development cycle strikes me as a slight paradox. I have been using natural media software since Painter 5, and the climate now is so different - back then, there was really just Photoshop and Painter, but between CSP, Rebelle, Procreate, Krita, Sketchbook, FireAlpaca, Heavypaint and the rest, it's surely a increasingly shallow pool of potential users and rather like following your favourite sports team, for me there is an element of picking your side and continuing to drop the odd slice of investment even if the return isn't immediately obvious. The collaborative art features that were introduced with Vitae were of no particular use to me, but I'm happy to lob Ambient funds now and then to help ensure its continued development.

Kind regards,

Peter