ok I'm really confused about upgrades additions etc

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Goldorak
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pegot wrote:
Goldorak wrote: 1) If you choose “Upgrade legacy perpetual licence (V4 or earlier)” on that page, then yes, you will end up with a 2020.x final perpetual license for standalone and ALL previously purchased plug-Ins as well (no duplicates, we assume one unique DCC plug-in per standalone). When main ten episodes ends, you get to keep all 2020.x final plug-ins, but will not get further updates, lose all access to other plug-ins/cloud rendering, and discounts on later perpetual releases once you end your maintenance.

2) If you choose default 199 / year maintenance only on top of V4 (i.e. you do NOT click on the perpetual 2020.x perpetual license upgrade), then you are on the cheapest plan to get Octane 2020 and later continuously, but you do not keep a perpetual license beyond V4.
Well this is exactly what I emailed support about. When I click on “Upgrade legacy perpetual license (V4 or earlier)” it sends me to a page that states:
"You currently have no products attached to your account that can be upgraded." And so I can not proceed. Yet my account shows I have v4 standalone and Blender plugins. So a bit confused?

Regarding option 2 - the 199 Maintenance update. How is that different than a regular All Access Subscription? Does it give you access to whatever versions are released in that maintenance period, or are you ONLY limited to the v2020.x releases?

Thanks for helping to clarify Goldorak!
The website page has been updated - please try the 199 option again and let us know if it is still not working for you.

For Option 2, well, it is basically identical to the previous Ent AA annual plan, we just renamed it. It gives you access to the latest version no matter what your last perpetual update might be (either V4 or 2020.x final). Note that if you do have a perpetual 2020.x license (not V4 or earlier) then you get a future perpetual upgrade as part of the plan (i.e. 2022.x perpetual) so long as your maintenance is active when that Perpetual upgrade version replaces 2020.x as the new canonical perpetual version. We may update perpetual versions at the same pace as int he past V2->V3->V4->2020 etc.
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