To be honest i'm quite glad by all this. I'm hoping AD is graving it's own grave.
2015-07-14 19:28 GMT+02:00 Eric Turman <i.anima...@gmail.com>: > @ Peter... touché ;^) > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:54 AM, <pete...@skynet.be> wrote: > >> Hey Eric, quite on the contrary, AD’s marketing is spot on: >> It’s Maya. >> For rent. >> At a premium price. >> Of course it’s for douchebags! >> >> Don’t forget, at AD, they are living so far in the future that these are >> normal prices for a cup of coffee or daily rates – I think they call >> that inflation. Or was it inflated? >> >> >> *From:* Eric Turman <i.anima...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:39 PM >> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> *Subject:* Re: Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya! >> >> It's not you, Chris. It is very expensive for software that is only >> rent-able--and yes, subscribing for a year is still effectively renting. I >> brew my own coffee and pay less than 25 cents per cup--not $5.77 (the >> adjusted price of a 5 day work week rather than 4.17 for working 7 days a >> week.) The whole thing comes off as sleazy car salesman, but it is >> unfortunately what I would expect from AD. >> >> I would, however, not be surprised if we see someone from AD jumping onto >> this thread explaining this latest 'benevolent' ploy and how this is >> better for all of us kind of horsepucky. >> >> <rant> >> One of the biggest parts of Autodesk and Adobe CC is that for production, >> generally, we don't care about the having the cutting edge until it has >> been proven stable. So while having access to beta to know what is coming >> down the pike and to test how the new version is going to break tools, the >> truth of the day to day is that we need a stable version of the software to >> get our work done quickly and with the fewest problems. AD marketing is so >> clueless to paint us in the light that we are all a bunch of hipster >> douche-bags pushing a button to advance to the next script and letting the >> computer work for a few hours while we go off in between mountain-biking >> and surfing like a glorified George Jetson. >> </rant> >> > > > > -- > > > > > -=T=- >
