๐ŸŽ‰ WM 4041 'Hurricane Ridge' Dev (October 7, 2024) Update

Congrats everyone with update :tada::tada::tada::tada::tada:

Want to ask, in aricle from 2017 developer did mention that if you purches the licence and here is no update withing 12 months - you will receive next one for free

Link: State of the World (Machine) 2017 โ€“ World Machine Development Blog (world-machine.com)

What Iโ€™ve learned and whatโ€™s changing

  • The first major business update is to make sure the upgrade policy is fair to everyone. Going forward, if World Machine does not release a new version within 12 months of purchasing your license upgrade, youโ€™ll receive the next (Development) version once it is available, even if itโ€™s beyond the 12-month upgrade timeline. Also, anyone who purchased a license upgrade between December 2015 and December 2016 has already automatically received all 2017 updates free of charge, not just Build 3014, just to say thanks for your patience and support last year. I canโ€™t promise how often I can get new features in your hands, but I can promise that a 12-month license upgrade will actually provide at least one upgrade!

My question is:

  • last big update โ€œArtist Point 4032โ€ was released in 31 of January of 2022 before
  • I did purches my Pro licence at the 1 of February 2022
  • here was little maintainance update in the 6 of September 2022
  • but no new versions like โ€œ4033, 4034, 4035, 4041โ€ฆโ€ were released until today (7 of October 2024)

so is i have option to receive this one update for free? or i need to contact developer? :thinking:

Because my update center ask me for renewal of current license

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I bought the pro license two years ago, but there has been no updates in the past two years. I am not sure whether developers should provide two free updates.

what you mean under two updates?

I mean if the next update should also provide a free update

I am really stoked to try this new version. Stephen (and the team?), thank you so much for this ฦ>

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question solved - ye, me and guys with same situation will receive update for free

YEEEEEY EHHEEHE

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I am so glad I decided to randomly check in here. Time to dabble!

In case Stephen stumbles in here and sees this, โ€œCongrats on the release!โ€ As always, I hope all is well!

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Since Iโ€™m not up to speed with joining Discourse Iโ€™m glad someone shared the announcement! I have been busy playing in other sandboxes, and have not opened World Machine in months. Who knows how long it could have been until I discovered this on my own!

Iโ€™ll count this as signs of life from Stephen. Now I know what was holding his attention the past year or two. Welcome back, Stephen! I canโ€™t wait until I have room in my budget to update my liscense to try out Hurricane Ridge!

:clinking_glasses:

Iโ€™m assuming the eligibility for upgrades is only for those who purchased the pro license after January 2024, not the maintenance? I bought my license in 2016 and renewed the maintenance in march 2023.

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If you did renewal of license from march 2023 to march 2024, you should receive next update for free (i think) - because here was no updates in this time perioud (as i remember)

But for asking that i recommend you go to Help Center - Contact Support and ask developer directly about that - because me may be wrong

I understood now, I do have access do the latest development channel release, not the stable. So I guess I will try out that version then maybe renew the license down the line.

I was worried with the lacks of news but that release came out with a bang it seems.

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Currently here is no stable releases for 4040+, only dev versions

Also next ones will be dev-realses (as i see developer started answer on bug reports and will fix them in next releases) but it is only my guesses