“A) I’ve got excellent alternatives of every plug-in on offer here,”

No. IK’s tape simulator has no alternative and is one of the best, as evidenced by comparisons with UAD, Softube, Acusutica, etc. Although there may be personal bias in each, IK was rated the highest by volunteers in the evaluation that took that into account.

this is version V2! Many plugins are much newer than 2017.
Farm Stone, TEAC, TASCAM, Tape Machines, Leslie and so on

Yeah their plugins are great. But the problem is their installation, especially with t racks. They make us install all of trial plugins , and everytime, i have to delete them manually.

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On other forums there’s also talk about IK’s flog-it, pay-a-lot for the next generation (V6 in this case, it’s assumed, will be coming out soon) model. I’ve also had issues with their support with another product, which was a good price but it appears there’s not much interest in customers who buy their ‘done stock’ – the bugs I found were ridiculously apparent but there was and is no intention from IK to fix them. They’re basically locked-in flaws because they’ve abandoned it. It’s possible you won’t get much love from support if you buy this.

Despite ^^ I initially nearly went for this until I realised A) I’ve got excellent alternatives of every plug-in on offer here, B) You don’t sell-off cheap like this without a marketing strategy and C) How many plug-ins does one actually need?! :)