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Upgrade to 2017 pricing?

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Saw someone saying they got email to upgrade 5 liceses for £49.99

If I go web site - it quotes me UPGRADE costs:

3 license:  1 time  = £39.99    1 year sub = £49.99

5 License: 1 time = £59.99    1 year sub = £59.99

Not interested in the cloud storage (which comes with the sub), but the price break mix look strange.

Anyway - compared to new pricing - the upgrade does not seem good value, especially for the "new features", which dont seem attractive to me.

So whats the general concensus? are people going to upgrade? Think I will wait for offer.. or skip a year (at least).

Thoughts? 

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Probably going to hear different stories on this one.  If 2016 is working fine for you, there's not a lot "feature-wise" to upgrade to 2017 right now - mostly bug fixes (some new ones introduced too).  The biggest advantage (right now) for 2017 is that it includes 1 year techncial support for all versions.  If 2016 is working relatively well in your enironment, I, myself, wouldn't rush to get 2017.  I'm sure there will be deals/discounts throughout the year if you're on the fence because of pricing.

As for pricing, I'd go with whatever the website shows in your region and look for emails.  Sometimes searching sites like couponmountain, will show other discount codes too.  The 1 time license are perpetual (local install and good forever).  The subscription is strictly a subscription so the product stops backing up if you don't renew and can only be used to restore.  Also on the subscription, 30 days after expiration (if not renewed yet), all cloud backups are deleted so you can only recover local backups.   

Thanks Bobbo..

Out of interest - whats Acronis policy re support of older versions?

If I stay on 2106.. I dont expect feature upgrade type support - but will they patch for bugs? Its working fine for me right now - so should be OK, but if Microsoft patch Win 10 and that causes an issue - would Acronis fix 2016, or would they only fix 2017 and say I had to upgrade?

Thanks.

2016 and earlier are 30 days from purchase for full technical support.  After that support only covers restore issues, and problems with accounts, registration, licensing and Cloud connectivity.  If you have a technical issue and want support, then you pay $20 for a pay per incident.  If it is an Acronis problem, they refund your money, if it is a local Windows issue, you're out $20.

A lot of people complained about the short time frame and Acronis has changed the policy to 1 year support in 2017, but only goes towards 2017 licenses.

Once a new product is released, patching for older versions usually ends.  There might still be one final 2016 update, but I really don't know.  There was one final 2015 laster year after 2016 was released, but that was primarily to make it compatible with Windows 10.  As Windows 10 continues to change (anniversary update is a good example), if it breaks earlier Acronis product compabitibility, no, I don't believe we'd see any updates for those versions and you'd have to consider moving to the latest compatible version instead.