We are happy to release the next iteration with new features and improvements for FDT6. We count more than 170 changes since FDT5.6 now. You can use most of them in our Free Version or get an upgrade to the full version (starts at 14,75€ / month). See all release notes here. Thats the latest: [...]
Aiming to deliver the best product for the interactive community is an ongoing goal for us. Our process is simple: listen to customers, think about their needs and all the while looking ahead to see what is on the horizon. Our goal and process has lead us to bring FDT to a new level: FDT will [...]
Today, the FDT team has releases a small update – 5.6.2. Since the 5.6 release, we’ve received some great feedback from the community and have fixed numerous issues. With this release, we’ve fixed any issues that might prevent anyone from using Apache Flex with FDT. While we’re continuing to work on an even tighter integration with Apache Flex, this is the first step. Below is a video tutorial on how to download Apache Flex and get it working with FDT.
Proudly we announce our next free update for all FDT 5 customers: FDT 5.6.
During the development of this release we really went deep down to FDT’s roots to improve its performance. What we achieved is a massive performance optimization for nearly every situation and project, especially big gaming projects.
*note: This deal has expired. Stay tuned for our next deal. With the release of FDT 5.5 we also introduced a new payment model – subscriptions. To welcome this new opportunity, we want to give a free month of FDT Max to all of you. With subscription payments you are much more flexible in setting [...]
As already announced in our blog post earlier, we made some changes to the license management: with FDT 5.5 we will be introducing a new subscription licensing model. This is something we have been asked about for quite a while and we are proud to announce that we finally integrated it. We will keep our former “One-time purchase” licensing model as well – subscriptions will just be another option to purchase FDT.
With FDT’s subscription option you are going to be much more flexible in projects and you won’t have to worry about upgrades anymore. Now you can easily decide to add a license to your team for a limited period of time without buying a full FDT Max version. This way you are always working with the latest version and, in fact, save money.
Example
Imagine you have a small team of three developers and you’re acquiring a project that needs at least five developers. You will need two additional freelancers to work with FDT as well. With FDT’s subscription you can now simply buy them a license for the exact duration of the project. Let’s say the project takes three months. Usually you would have bought two full licenses, 499.- EUR each. Now you just subscribe to FDT for three months for a total of 139.- EUR each. This means you are saving 360.- EUR per license. Pretty neat, huh?
How to purchase?
You can simply go to our purchase page, decide which subscription model best fits your needs, and order your choice. After the initial payment, which is dated directly after your purchase, you will get a key which you have to activate in FDT. If you don’t want to use FDT Max anymore, simply cancel your subscription with the link that you got with your receipt. You can give notice of termination at any time with effect to the next payment period. We always charge you before you start your next subscription period. This means for a monthly subscription period we charge you monthly, and for a six months subscription period we charge you once in six months.
Prices
To keep the whole subscription model as flexible as possible we have four different subscription options:
For more information visit our buying page and choose the tab “Subscription”.
“We will keep our former “One-time purchase” licensing model as well – subscriptions will just be another option to purchase FDT.”
As Arnold has already mentioned, the option for the ‘one-time-purchase’ cannot be found anywhere. I need to purchase a full FDT license with urgency, but cannot find any option to do so apart from the subscription option.
Hi, where do I find the info on “one-time-purchase”? Right now there seems only to be subscription. And for me subscription wouldn’t be a choice. I rather would prefer to upgrade my FDT 4 Max by a one time payment. Thanks for some comment!
“We will keep our former “One-time purchase” licensing model as well – subscriptions will just be another option to purchase FDT.”
I can not find the purchase option anywhere.
Hey Adam,
While Adobe does offer Flash Builder as part of their subscription suite, Flash Builder is updated (with bug fixes and new features) only along with the rest of the suite. We plan to continue to offer new fixes and new features for the latest AIR SDK releases.
The other point is, are the other applications needed in your workflow. If you daily use Photoshop / Illustrator / Flash Builder …. then it is a good idea. If you are focused on just developing, then all you need is FDT. This is the case for me. I used to use PS, Illustrator…. but now I just code.
This seems like rather poor pricing considering the entire Adobe suite is ~€710 per year with subscription pricing and includes Flash Builder amongst a plethora of other useful applications!
[...] the release of FDT 5.5 we also introduced a new payment model – subscriptions. With subscription payment you are much more flexible in setting up your development team with FDT [...]
[...] With FDT 5.5 we are introducing a whole new license management: FDT subscriptions. Software subscriptions aim at precisely matching your needs with respect to time. Subscribe to FDT when you need it and cancel it when you’re done. This allows you to react a lot more flexible to the quickly changing, dynamic environment. From now on, FDT will periodically check your license’s validity, enabling you to allocate your budget to those times when you need FDT the most. Please make sure that FDT is allowed to use Port 80 to communicate with our license server. For more details please check our blogpost. Some great examples and sample calculations to this long awaited novelty are presented in this blog post. [...]