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The DAW, formerly known as "FL Studio 21", is apparently going to be rebranded as "FL Studio 2024" for its next upcoming release (currently undergoing public beta testing).

Previously, this beta had been referred to publicly as "v21.3 beta x", ... but as of the current "v21.3 beta 3", Image-Line have apparently decided to refer to this as the "FL Studio 2024.1 Beta" instead.

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Any thoughts about the new version scheme and FL Studio being retitled to "FL Studio 2024", "FL Studio 2025", etc. going forwards?

Do users feel positive, negative, or indifferent to this change?

Is this all just a marketing ploy to attract more attention, or is it beneficial and more obvious for customers to recognise which is the latest up-to-date release?

With FL Studio's "Lifetime Free Updates", perhaps this is less of an issue, since existing licence-holders will always get free updates, whenever they're released, regardless of their major or minor status.

But, could this same "annual titling" format be adopted by the other rival DAW developers, such as "Ableton Live 2025", "Studio 2025", and "Cubase 2025?" Or would that be silly?

(no doubt, they'd probably try to monetize any such a change, for more regular annual 'paid/major' updates') :lol:
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Yeah sure whatever. Like you said it's not like their versioning scheme really matters. It does seem like it makes it a little unclear when a major update happens but :shrug:
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Greenstorm33 wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:47 pm Yeah sure whatever. Like you said it's not like their versioning scheme really matters. It does seem like it makes it a little unclear when a major update happens but :shrug:
A major update could be FL Studio 2024, FL Studio 2027, etc. It doesn't mean there has to be a FL Studio 2025 or FL Studio 2026.

I guess, if you do them by year/month, it is easier for users to know how old their version is and when the last version was released?

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Blaster wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:06 pm
Greenstorm33 wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:47 pm Yeah sure whatever. Like you said it's not like their versioning scheme really matters. It does seem like it makes it a little unclear when a major update happens but :shrug:
A major update could be FL Studio 2024, FL Studio 2027, etc. It doesn't mean there has to be a FL Studio 2025 or FL Studio 2026.

I guess, if you do them by year/month, it is easier for users to know how old their version is and when the last version was released?
I think that's probably more the thinking behind this.

That, along with perhaps also some marketing execs, wanting to clearer communicate the fact that this DAW is regularly updated.

i.e. they may believe version "21" sounded like it hasn't had much improvement in three years, to anyone mistaking that number for the year "2021"

(perhaps when marketing to potential new customers, from the same crowd as those who also regularly buy video games like FIFA 22, FIFA 23, etc., each year?)

Probably not most of the users on KVR forum. But those you'd find on other social media, that attract a younger demographic.
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Paid updates incoming!!!

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Blaster wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:06 pm
Greenstorm33 wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:47 pm Yeah sure whatever. Like you said it's not like their versioning scheme really matters. It does seem like it makes it a little unclear when a major update happens but :shrug:
A major update could be FL Studio 2024, FL Studio 2027, etc. It doesn't mean there has to be a FL Studio 2025 or FL Studio 2026.

I guess, if you do them by year/month, it is easier for users to know how old their version is and when the last version was released?
They seem to be calling a .x update "2024" and conceivably you could have two or more .x updates, or a .x update and a major version update, in one year so I'm not sure what they're going to do then.

Edit: I see, they're just tacking on a .1 (2024.1). Still seems to preclude distinguishing between what would have been a major update and what would have been a point update but I'm not sure that distinction actually matters much now.
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chk071 wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:32 pm Paid updates incoming!!!
No this will never happen.

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Yeah. I was just trolling around a bit. ;)

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Between no paid updates forever and rampant piracy, is that company profitable?. How they do it?

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Yorrrrrr wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:23 am Between no paid updates forever and rampant piracy, is that company profitable?. How they do it?
Sheer volume of sales?

Also, they did just recently introduce their separate "FL Cloud" subscription service.

So likely, they will continue to add services to that, to ensure a regular revenue stream, from subscribers ... of which, there are possibly a LOT, and potentially many more existing customers to sign up. Given, how popular the DAW is.

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Yorrrrrr wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:23 am Between no paid updates forever and rampant piracy, is that company profitable?. How they do it?
New customers still pays. And old customers buys periphery like hardware and software and sample packs. And we have a paid cloud now. So they get their bills and developers paid.

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Yorrrrrr wrote: Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:23 am Between no paid updates forever and rampant piracy, is that company profitable?. How they do it?
Something I wonder with a lot of companies in this business. Bitwig, for example. How many years has it been in development? How do you bridge such periods of literally no income? Puzzles me.

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https://synthanatomy.com/2023/04/image- ... loper.html

Must be doing well enough!

Bitwig has regular income with the 'update plan', no idea how image line does so well, must have a lot of new people constantly buying in I guess....people like me who buy it in a sale and then rarely use it (and there is no way to sell it, so no second hand market).
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