Greed seems the order of the day, it seems like Adobe is also going to a similar plan where you will only be able to get an upgrade price if you upgrade from the version preceding the newest version.  They also are trying to sell people helfy  month subscription fees where you don't actually own the programs but will pay a rental fee each month to use them.  I've not found that every version of Photoshop worth upgrading, but now I'll have to do every upgrade because I can't afford to pay for the program without an upgrade and I think the rental fee absurd.  I wish that Photoshop Elements had everything I needed in it, then I could afford to let Photoshop go and just use that--but it doesn't so I'll just keep paying.

I do find $600 for Vue Complete without an upgrade absurd for a hobbiest.  I agree also that htey have one of the slowest render engines on earth.  Well at one time there were lighting effects that I could only accompllish in Vue, but that's no longer the case,  I think it's funny that it took them this many version to finally include particles--you'd have thought that that would have been one of their earliest innovations.