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Old 07-18-2016, 08:48 AM
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Peckish
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Originally Posted by ManiacQuilter2
If you do currently own the version of EQ7, you can just buy the update for EQ8 when it comes out instead of the whole program.
While this has been true of previous versions, I'm not sure they will do the same for EQ8, if and when it eventually comes out. I was reading a discussion on another website about the possibility of EQ8 coming out soon, and there were a couple of EQ representatives involved in the dialogue. While they were hesitant to put anything in writing, they were very doubtful about there being an "update" price for EQ8. For that matter, they're denying there's even an EQ8 in the works.

I'm wondering if they're working on an EQ8 that is so different that they're going to release it as a completely separate product with a different name. Just being real here - sometimes people, and our demographic in particular, is not usually thrilled when something that we're familiar with gets updated and changed to the point where we have to take time from what we want to do so we can learn something new. A couple cases in point; when this forum was updated a couple of years ago, and when Windows 10 came out. It might be easier for EQ to rename it's product than to face a similar backlash.
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