Not sure I follow. The reseller I listed confirmed you could purchase the $250 student suite, and then upgrade to the commercial version of just Maya for $1300. True, you can't purchase just the Maya student version for $50 or so, but an extra $200 is a small price to pay for a discounted future upgrade.
Technically it's not the student pricing they are raising, thats still 250. I got all riled up reading the thread title, ready to come in here and say that Autodesk must have signed a deal with piratebay to increase their traffic. It's not exactly fair on graduates no, especially considering the loans they will already…
I've just got off the phone with my local Autodesk reseller who's informed me of the new pricing for Student>Commercial upgrades on Autodesk products for 2013. We were both in agreement that it's quite ridiculous, and he'd had a lot of complaints that he'd forwarded to Autodesk. I'm keen to hear some thoughts on this…