Personally, I'm surprised Waves didn't get hit with a class-action over this. Dozens of my unfinished projects are already tied up in this mess. Customer service completely ignored me after I said I wouldn't pay more to use plugins I already own. Total bullshit.yea first world problems I know. Stealing even seems justified by the predicament Waves greedy policies have put me in. I'd be willing to bet the same amount that pirated versions don't suffer from any of these issues. I completely regret purchasing any Waves plugins and seriously consider replacing them with other products, rather than spend the $100 it will cost me to replace my lost license. Yea you can put the licenses on a flash drive and move it between y not to ever forget or lose it tho. They want you to repurchase each copy of each plugin each year. So essentially Waves is a subscription service in disguise. You can pay for a second machine license (Waves has the audacity to call this feature of WUP a "free second license") through the "Waves Update Plan" which is only good for a year and can easily cost as much as the original license (it never goes on sale like the original purchase). I have actual hundreds of plugins and don't know of any other company charging to install them on more than one machine since it's pretty standard to have both a studio and a mobile setup. Not unless you pony up for the annually renewable Waves Update Program. No amount of begging, berating or cajoling will get them to bend on this in my experience. Word to the wise, before you get involved with shady Waves, realize the following: You only get 1 (one) machine license, which if lost can only be retrieved once per year. Now I come to find that unless I pay an additional $100, previously purchased plugins will not function again until November! Due to technical issues I've had to reinstall my OS and replace various components and did not have the forethought to deactivate my Waves plugin licenses beforehand (was only the furthest thing from my mind). They make good plugins, so why not? Those made their way into many projects in that time, I started buying some others and I even came to depend on them. I was lured in by a few freebies from Waves over the years. Welcome to another dime-a-dozen-frustration-venting rant about Waves borderline scammy "licensing service."
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