I've taken the plunge and gone for an annual subscription to the Vue Creator and Plant Factory package. PF is entirely new to me so there is going to be a long learning curve, and the Vue interface has changed a lot, so I won't feel qualified to comment much on the package until I've got familiar with it, but the first things I've noticed (comparing with Vue 2016, which was the latest version I had), is that rendering seems a little faster for complex scenes, that the render settings I've used for Vue 10 and 2014 now need tweaking for Creator (expected, I guess), and that the atmosphere presets I bought or created for Vue 10 work OK in Creator, which wasn't the case with 2014. I've reported a couple of problems, and so far the response from E-On has been helpful and fast (I got a reply on New Year's day). I went for the annual subscription because the monthly one is an automatically renewing option that has to be cancelled a month in advance, which I have a problem with, and because to be honest I think it will take me the best part of a year to get familiar enough with the two applications to decide whether the software is still for me.