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The writing was on the wall ever since they got sold and bought so often by stock market holding groups.The Death Nail in my view was the public announcement(must be around 1st quarter of 2018 or so) from the owners HG Capital in regards of what products are and aren´t profitable, going so far to single out Modo as not "being in line with their investment plan".

If you use NUKE, you are fine, any other product? good luck and EOL for that.

Back in June this year, Foundry staff did video calls with companies and Indies/individuals which they know are longtime customers and tried to up-sell them Modo. They didn´t gave it a thought on moving back to perpetual licenses and my wallet closed while we where in the talk.

It also didn´t help their companies reputation that their service staff was atrocious in 2024. Customers who are active in the official forum and also affected reported the bad treatment.

As an example; We signed papers, they voided the old license, sent me a temporary license and then silence.
I went a week or so without being able to use my purchased and paid software since the assigned staff to my ticket went into holidays and didn´t forward their open tickets to others. All that among other things devalued their products worthiness.

I will also consider dropping Mari soon. They so far fail(ed) to address to implement important filetype support which is needed in my software combination.

User perception is important and Foundry and their various changing owners fumbled it in many aspects.

EDIT;
There is an End of life extended license available, valid 10 years from Nov 7, 2024 for any version of Modo up to Modo 17.1.
This can be downloaded and activated anytime up until 31st October 2025
https://campaigns.foundry.com/modo-eol-license