Howdy:
All legit questions/issues. Need several things to happen in real world before can address whether there will be a Tonepack update for Q9.
PREREQUISITES
1) Cliff releases a FINAL (non beta) Q9 version. Makes no sense to do anything until that happens, because it can all change before final.
AND
2) a updated FWQ9 compatible Axe-Edit and AX8-Edit are released, because that's how I work. I can't do this all from front panel. That software update usually happens pretty quickly, thanks to rock stars at Fractal like Michael Pickens.
PLUS
3) a FracTool compatible FWQ9 version is released (mainly because I don't own a Mark II). Need this to be able to convert presets built on XL to Mark II. Plus, if I need to set any parameters universally or re-set them, FracTool is essential to do batch processing. No control over the timing of this one.
THEN
4) If I install and determine FQ9 final DOES make significant tonal difference where amp resets and tweaking is required due to Cliff's speaker amp block changes, then understand that to go through all 700 tones, for three units, will take a few weeks after steps 1-3 above happen.
As of this moment, from what I can tell , there are no new amps (which will not FIT into existing banks anyway - no space!) or corrections made to specific amp models. So that's helpful for overall update purposes and eases my mind some on net effect on tone.
If it was just a question of changing a few amps, I could provide "how-to" instructions in an email update and on forum pretty easy.
Since don't know how the new speaker compression parameter will affect the existing tones from Q8.02 yet (and won't until the above steps 1 &2 happen), I probably won't load it myself. Note I did not use a lot of the Q. 8.02 speaker drive parameter in the Naked Amps, if any.
What I noted most is in FQ8.02 is, the more speaker you use, it lowers the overall preset volume LEVEL, thus that has to be bumped up some to compensate. FracTool can do a LEVEL change for an Axe-Fx XL, XL+ or Mark II, but NOT for an AX8 unfortunately -- that all has to be done manually by each preset and scene 1/2,so 700 times...
The biggest issue comes with presets like Mesa-Boogies and some Fenders and Marshalls where re-setting the amp block, even though it preserves drive, B/M/T and Level, resets some key things like presence, depth, brite switch, and for Mesa's GEQs and Fat Boost etc. I'll likely have to make a Looooong list of those on/off in existing stuff for presets, and go back through it all to make sure each preset preserves that in an update.
PROBABLE COURSE
If things need to change to preserves the TonePack's sounds as they were generally in Q8, then more than likely I would email all customers who bought the TonePack and let them download a new update of it, if they so chose. And sell that updated version to new customers moving forward. Not everyone registered an account when they checked out; so, that may be necessary for existing customers to gave each proper download permissions for new version.
Finally -- If, based on all the above, I do determine I must produce a new version, then I'd say no additional charge to existing customers for any new Q9 TonePack version. Do note, can't commit further beyond that update, because it really is a each-firmware-update-dependent thing to assess.