Welp, that's where I either switch to Blender or ditch 3D entirely and go to flight school for a different career. In the end, I understand how this is economically more beneficial to them. What they're failing to grasp is that this basically converts many of their non-corporate customers - y'know, US - into sharecroppers.…
I think it will fail if they expect to force people or companys that can't afford yearly license upgrades to pay monthly subscriptions that equal a yearly license update. On the otherhand I can see some benefits if they drop the price, such that you pay less per year than upgrading a new license. I think the price-tag will…
Has anything been said about the price? I'd imagine Autodesk would drop their subscription price to an amount that is affordable by everybody or else they'd risk users migrating over to other software. I think this move is bullshit but if they can offer an attractive price like Epic does with UE4, then I might be willing…
Simple really, most software isn't that hard to pickup, blender has always been interesting from a open source point of view and then furthermore I expect the envelope to be pushed eventually, mesh fusion for example I think was one of those big things, and as the features advance you will have to jump forward at some…
I think it is a win for Blender, and my current infatuation Modo though, in a way it really helps you untether yourself to auto-desk in a work environment though, before a perpetual license was bought and owned so you want one you can generally get as most artists on as possible, now if you speak to your employer about…
Blender core team developers won't allow for that. But also you don't have to, plugins that make something like that are here already! Similar tools will flourish in next months. ;) http://blenderaddonlist.blogspot.com/2013/10/addon-b-max-tools.html On photoshop... Krita is becoming so strong lately and I'm sure that many…
I understand the sentiment, but the hate is a bit misguided. This is a business, always has been. When a business talks about "caring about the customer" this is a euphemism for providing the features that will drive paying customers to buy their products. Like any other product, if you don't feel it's worth it, you don't…
Maya and Max are not worth that amount of money if you compare prices to other DCC's like Modo, LW, C4D (Prime version). Not to mention Blender which progress faster every month. If ADSK cut their prices by 50% this can work. But I strongly doubt they do. More realistic scenario: Year since first subscription-only versions…
Finally, the day has come. At the Autodesk Investor Day, which took place October 1st, the company’s Senior Vice President and Industry Strategy & Marketing Andrew Anagnost revealed that the company will be transitioning to a new rental-based only model and will be removing the sale of perpetual software licenses in the…
I do hope the Foundry does not go the same direction. We are starting to add Modo a replacement to Autodesk Maya and Max. Paying 5k usd for a new license is just too steep in my books. Modo's about 1/3 the price. This is why having a monopoly on anything is never a good thing. It tends to lead to abusive business models.…