Sam, not only do I feel exactly the way you do about paying monthly, but I have had the exact same experience with Adobe CC. I literally DO NOT TRUST After Effects anymore. That is a major shift from how I felt before CC. I now do whatever I can to avoid using CC. Autodesk already had me going down that road with Maya being so unreliable unless you have teams of programmers to patch it into something the small guy can rely on. Then came Softimage, and well, I think we all know how I feel about what they did there.
Frankly, Autodesk won't lose me as a customer if (but more likely when) they switch to rental only. They already lost me when they killed Softimage. The question now is, how many others will they lose when people can't buy their software anymore, just rent it? My guess is a whole lot more. On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Sam Bowling <sbowl...@cox.net> wrote: > The problem with Paying monthly for all you software is that it starts to > add up real quick. People don't want to pay for their software every month, > they want to pay for it once and then forget about it for a year or two, or > maybe even more. Subscriptions also leads to extremely buggy software. We > have Adobe CC and every single new release introduces new bug, some of them > are pretty nasty. Even their bug fixes cause more bugs. I'm guessing that > their beta testing is almost nonexistent now. If Autodesk wants to make > more money, they should start putting new features in their software that > will make people want to upgrade. I haven't really seen much in that past > few years on any Autodesk products that would make me want to upgrade. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Francois Lord > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 3:39 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: Autodesk considering ditching perpetual licenses > > Uhmm, isn't it the opposite? > If you can skip the big purchase price and pay by the month, like Adobe > did, it's a good opportunity for independants and small companies. > You can also decide not to pay for 3 months because you are using another > software on a specific project. > > But I doubt Autodesk will make it that flexible. > > On 29-Aug-14 18:15, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > > Well, there go the independents, and the small companies, and any > > start up companies... all the growth in the industry in other words > > but fuck it... > > > > > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> -25 Years Experience -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
