Access to the next Release when it ships.A 12 month MAXON Service Agreement (MSA).I feel like I am locked into a expensive maintenance of a perpetual licence that I don’t see a very logical way out of now when I could have rented c4d for 6 years for the £4000 c4d could end up costing me.Until 29 March, you can upgrade your old version of Cinema 4D for one low price To be honest the subscription is okay with me….it would be a reasonable cost but I really don’t appreciate being ripped off for having a perpetual licence. It is a pretty obvious attempt to make subscription seem like the best option. They have not improved the software enough in one release to justify a third of the value of the software. That’s a third of my initial investment earlier in the year which would make my single c4d seat cost me over £4000. Much to my surprise they told me it would cost just under £1000 to upgrade that to an R21 perpetual?! I recently got in touch with my local reseller about a price to upgrade my perpetual R20 licence that I purchased in March (c4d studio) which I paid over £3000 for. However I might need to take back what I said about them not forcing you onto a subscription model….
I was mainly talking about rental prices in comparison to the more expensive Autodesk counter parts. If sidefx makes their software rental only – there will be only lightwave3D and Modo from big familiar / most popular softwares with perpetual option, I guess Modo will be next rental only and then it would be most likely Houdini but don’t know about LW. For visual effects it will need many things but houdinifx will be great help for now until sidefx will make it rental only – in that point blender should add vfx simulation framework. And feature updates was very dissapointing – they have made that core rewriting 6years now? And sculpting still hasn’t dynatopo.Īfter using blender 2.8 now for few days intesively i must admit that blender is very advanced now and that coming updates to sculpting does look interesting when i read/watched “Sculpt Branch Status Report” – Blender looks to be very good alternative, just need to fix some UI basics (like objects selections in hierarchy) and more motion graphics tools. Atleast when you compare msa to this new licesing options. I trusted that it won’t go this way but it is now clear to me that tehy will go rental only soon.
This was so sad news to me… I was big fan. Always need to buy the newest version with that 3567€ price tag (and that CEO called that MSA unfair). And no more MSA – no possibility to upgrade automaticly in future with lower price.
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