DXO PL v7 is it worth upgrading?

Which aside from do you mean? Aside from

  • DxO doubling renewal prices in two years
  • DxO cheating EU business customers out of their VAT offset
  • DxO moving to an annual update rather than an update when ready (used to be about every 1.5 or 2 years)
  • DxO forcing their customers to double buy software (Nik 2 was force bundled with a second copy of PhotoLab which made no sense to those of us who already owned Elite)
  • DxO deliberately moving core image correction functions (Fine Contrast, Luminance Mapping) from PhotoLab to FilmPack to force customers to buy additional software whose core functionality would otherwise not be of interest to many of us
  • DxO changing the rules to force customers to upgrade within two versions or lose upgrade rights (happened to me already with Nik for which I paid for three DxO versions)
  • DxO moving to support current macOS -1 instead of -2 (that cost me €3000 and turned my update cycle on our hardware upside down, only PhotoLab out of the software I use imposed these unwanted upgrades)

Which part of DxO’s gradually more and more exploitative treatment of their customers over the last few years would you like to highlight with that coy comment?

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