Are Waves Plugins the devil?

[@amelia8612]

After spending few thousand on Waves licenses and WUP and seeing the whole thing going subscription based I took action this morning. I uninstalled all Waves products from my M1 MacBook and I'm planning on using eventually only Logic stock plugins. I then installed all my soon-to-be-obsolete Waves products to a late 2013 MacBook pro which I will use sparingly. When this old MacBook dies my thousands of $$$ adventure with Waves will be over.

[@HomeStudioRescue]

Damn, that sucks. I understand completely every time I’ve had to update a question what I’m gonna do. That’s a good plan though. Leaving them on an old computer.

[@scmstr]

So wait, if you buy a bundle and a year or however much time passes... you can't use them anymore without paying to update them? Or they are just offering an update to the newer versions? I'm a little confused. I feel like you should just continue to use the "outdated" versions of those plugins, as they're just plugins and should just continue to work the same way. I'm a windows user, so I'm not sure how Mac works, but I REALLY hope they aren't holding your plugins hostage when you update your OS, that seems criminal.

[@HomeStudioRescue]

I have to look up what the hell they’re doing now because they tried to switch to the subscription model, and then they immediately switch back because of the backlash. The waves update thing is very much a thing so when your licenses expire and you update to new operating system, especially on a Mac, you have to pay for the update fee For me I’ve done this now three times over the last 13 years. The first two times it was $240. The last time I only paid for about half of the plug-ins because I just didn’t wanna pay for the other ones.

[@marcell7406]

lol and they backpedaled shortly after