Updating / Upgrading present and future concerns

me_again wrote on 2/26/2026, 12:40 AM

Greetings,

I'm constantly being bombarded with emails to update or upgrade my MS2025 Premium to VDL2026, even more so over the past couple of weeks. I'm sure the same applies to all their other video and audio users.

If "new" Magix still runs true to form there will be a new version - VDL 2027? - around June/July this year.

With the current Nvidia debacle and the VDL2026 updates to "fix" the problem, with as Magix states "No updates are planned for older program versions", were I to update to VDL 2026, for example, in March effectively mean that I'm buying redundant stock that will have no further bug fixes after 3 months time? If so then I would be buying an editor that is "sold as seen".

Even my 6 year old TV still has an occasional software/firmware update.

I realise that this is conjecture but if correct then it gives me no confidence to buy anything from Magix again in the future. I understand that Magix wants to sell, sell, sell but to write off their anticedent program as "old" when you may have bought it as short as a day before a subsequent version is released is, to me, appalling.

AndyW

ps I've already asked Magix this but obviously it's not in their interest to answer my emails.

Comments

SP. wrote on 2/26/2026, 12:52 AM

@me_again How about waiting until the new version comes out and then decide if you need it?

me_again wrote on 2/26/2026, 1:31 AM

@SP.

Thanks for the suggestion but I've no intention of updating to VDL 2026, I was posing a hypothetical question.

How many people come on this forum saying they've just bought VDL 2026 and how do I do this. that or the other?

If they've just bought it, in 3 months time (assuming Magix remain true to form and release VDL2027 then) that program is effectively redundant under the current Magix thinking. To get any more bug fixes, then you need to buy another version. I can understand Magix not wanting to support previous versions older than one level though.

The "old" Magix did support the previous version of a MEP/Movie Studio for a while; indeed there was an AC3 bug fix (MS 2025 Update to 24.0.1.249) released by the "new" Magix in August last year - AFTER they'd released VDL 2026. If they could do it then they could do it now.

This 'buy the new version to get bug fixes' philosophy is good business sense but it antaganises the customer and destroys their loyalty.

In an extreme case scenario, if I buy a brand new car today and tomorrow the same manufacturer releases a new model, would I be miffed if the guarantee on my day old car was instantly made void? Too right I would be!!

AndyW