Thanks for the info. Yeah, the fact that I can't find a stated policy on upgrades is somewhat worrying. As is the upgrade price for any single application, and I don't know if there will be a "group/complete" upgrade package available.
It's interesting how the smaller "mom and pop" software have such generous upgrade policies...bibble and many other programs give you a year or more (or unlimited in some cases) of free upgrades. Proshow even does a year. But the big boys like adobe and in this case Nik don't seem so generous. So a guy like me says, ok I can do a couple hundred for some software once...but not again in 6 months.
I really don't understand the model at all...they want $600 (before discounts of up to $200) for the complete package at Nik. Really? Sure it may be worth it to the pro's, but I have to think that cutting the price in half would generate more than twice as many sales, and since there is no appreciable cost in selling incremental units, you'd think they would look at this. I think that's exactly what Topaz has done. Reasonable pricing yielding high sales levels.
So Nik wants as much as Photoshop itself costs, and upgrades will be significantly more than PS upgrades.
sigh looks like I'll be skipping Nik until they either get the price reasonable or the upgrade path reasonable. My bet is that $300 for the full complete version with 12 months of free upgrades and with upgrades of $150 every 2 years would make them more money than their current plan. At least then I'd be a customer
Meanwhile, adobe made inroads to the Upoint with LR2, sharpening and noise continues to improve, and Niks bundled product becomes less valuable each year...at least IMHO. Still good, just less of a value.
