No need to upgrade a DAW annually unless you held back features for 10 years! This is a perpetual license model trying to be a subscription base one. No need to update a DAW several times a year unless it’s poorly written. This would not be such a big problem if there weren’t so many bloody updates simply to sell product. CDN’s have been ubiquitous for awhile along with cloud-based, encrypted license managers.Īnd yes, offline use is a very important factor for DAWs that never touch the internet, especially in pro facilities. problem is Steinberg spent to many years throwing money away developing eLicenser. plist files/System Library (Mac).Īgain, none of this is hard. Updates can be simply managed with an XML file with metadata of apps installed by scanning the registry (Windows) or. Offline licensing should not be rocket science as you can transfer an encrypted key/breadcrumb to the system.
The title of the app can be called Product Manager like IK Multimedia does. Activation Manager is a poor choice of a name.
You can simply introduce an “Offline mode” which would turn off the DA portion but allow for offline activation in the license manger.