It's a system that seems to favour massive company's that can afford to routinely upgrade their packages, and screws the individual user for any sort of brand fidelity they may attempt to maintain; if you know you are going to get a discount (where it even 10%) on your next upgrade as a token to your brand loyalty, you would feel incentivised to perches upgrades, its marketing 101 no different then a loyalty card at your supermarket.
The only reason for doing this is to intentionally loose a demographic. In the short term maybe this will allow AD to save money, freelancers are "infrequent in their purchases". They actually require a stable and competent package out of the box, something big companies usually pays their own Devs and TDs to sort out. Unlike big companies they also have the gall to voice their contempt of an inferior service. So yea this kinda makes sense for them in the short term to stabilise their key demographic, to the detriment of others probably makes the share holders smile as well. of course this also kills any form of growth within the potential market, but only time will tell what kind of impact that could have. On 27 February 2014 08:16, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za> wrote: > On Modo I am really impressed with it. Some tools are not 100% where I > want them yet but overall finding it very powerful. Mesh fusion is awesome > and saving my pennies to buy myself a copy of it. Stuff like rigging is > handled differently so it takes a bit to wrap your head around it. > > I really love things like being able to edit an animation curve in the > viewport or create a custom UI that allows me to key specific things on > each frame for the selected controller. Their curve editor just feels more > responsive to me. > > You can see these on the new learn modo videos the posted recently. > > That being said its not as polished as softimage yet but you also have > to bear in mind that things like decent particles and animation have only > been around a few years in Modo. If Softimage does go EOL it where I am > headed for my personal stuff. Whether we go that way for our students > depends on a few more things. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Daniel Sweeney [dan...@northforge.co.uk] > *Sent:* 26 February 2014 11:19 PM > > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: new upgrade policy > > I am as quick as I can off the autodesk rollercoaster. A few things > have made my choice I will always love soft and use the tool when its > needed but I think I need to look for another avenue. Looking at modo? > Thoughts?? > > Autodesk bollocks. > On Feb 26, 2014 8:52 PM, "Kris Rivel" <krisri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I read it and couldn't help but say WTH?! >> >> Kris >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Emilio Hernandez <emi...@e-roja.com>wrote: >> >>> Seems they need to fill the vault... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2014-02-26 14:29 GMT-06:00 Kris Rivel <krisri...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> So...what's everyone's take on this gem? So if I don't upgrade to >>>> latest version now...then when I want that version I have to pay full >>>> price? >>>> >>>> >>>> http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-the-Autodesk-Upgrade-Policy.html >>>> >>>> Kris >>>> >>> >>> >> This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is >> confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please >> notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or >> disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. >> Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf >> of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this >> message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the >> personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the >> views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All >> agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African >> Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. > >
