Hi,
Some features considered as standard in other RAW post-processing software are only available when purchasing a license for the corresponding by-product. For example, you won’t get luminosity masking in DPL unless you purchase and activate an FP license (don’t ask about the relationship between luminosity masks and FilmPack, there’s none). Or you you will be unable to flip an image if you didn’t purchase a VP license (unless this changed in DPL 8). This is a very questionable marketing strategy but we’re slowly getting used to this unusual and surprising policy. Basically, if you want to benefit from the whole DxO know-how you have to purchase DPL+VP+FP.
You normally don’t need PureRAW if you have DPL. However, the denoising technologies used in both products are not in sync. DPL now has DeepPrime XD2s while PureRAW 4.5 is still at the XD2 level (which is quite a significant gap since the major problem of DeepPrime XD and XD2 is the generation of visible artifacts - XD2s seems to eventually fix this problem). If you are a Fujifilm user, note that XD2 and XD2s are still not supporting x-Trans files.
Do you think this is a messy marketing strategy ? I confirm.