Totally agree, I've been trying to spread that idea without success. The worst thing with the EOL is that we can't purchase SI anymore. A lot of people and companies are still working on SI projects that will last years and not being able to increment licenses when needed is a big problem.
Not being able to buy licenses also means big companies can't rely on SI for new projects, affecting all of us small guys that work for them directly or indirectly, not being able to keep using SI as much as we could or like to while changing to Maya. BTW, Maya is not a choice for some of us, we have to use it because the big guys will use it. Including a SI license, temporally for 2 years and/or with some restrictions if you want would ease the transition. We can finish our current projects without problems, and start maybe a couple of SI projects before finally migrate to something else, in our case, Maya. Martin Sent from my iPhone > On 2014/03/21, at 14:14, Martin Contel <martin3d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Why doesn't Autodesk include Softimage 2015 with Maya & Max 2016, 2017... to > all customers for free? Is it really a better option to leave it on the shelf > as it doesn't exist anymore or is not good enough for today's (and > tomorrow's) market needs? > > -- > Martin Contel > Square Enix (Visual Works) >>
