Not only in the UK...
Pricing for SI 7.0 was 2300,- €.
For 2013 it's now 3960,-
That's a 72% increase.
And for no reason other than making Softimage not stand out too much
pricewise besides max and Maya.
AD's reputation is well deserved...
On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:36:53 +0200, Thomas Helzle <[email protected]>
wrote:
Have a look at modo 601.
Depending on what you do, it might be a nice alternative (it is for me,
I'm
no longer on subscription as well - partly because of the price
increase).
You can import ICE particles via realflow .bin and alembic is built in
(didn't test that one really though).
The renderer is brilliant, and while the layer based approach has some
cons
compared to nodes, it also has some things that are impossible to do in
MRay out of the box like instancing of materials and textures.
I already start to really dig it and would prefer it over MR in most
cases.
For me, the alternative would have been to buy Vray for XSI.
Modo is actively developed in all areas (SP1 came out yesterday) and the
community is very open and welcoming.
The main thing I miss is the modifier stack for modelling, but I still
have
XSI 2012 if I should need it badly.
With all the things that may be missing, you also get a load of nice and
well though out things not available in XSI to this date: you even have a
color palette (yay ;-) ), great tools for measuring and exact work, it
comes with a nice library of USABLE presets, and it's way more tailored
to
the small shop or freelancer without a herd of TDs.
I bought it while the crossgrade offer was still on, so it was way
cheaper
than another year of subscription for XSI would have been.
Overall, 601 is the first version of modo that I personally would call
pretty "feature complete" as a package...
The demoversion is said to be out end of this or beginning of next week.
May be an alternative for you, may be not.
For me it is pretty much the only alternative, since Lightwave still has
a
way to go (although v11 is pretty good) and Cinema doesn't agree with
me...
I keep a very open eye on Blender though.
http://www.luxology.com/
Otherwise I think Raffaele nailed it. And I'm not interested in making
Shareholders happy if they don't make me happy in return ;-)
Cheers,
Tom
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That's because they want you to buy the suites, instead of being on one
of
the smaller products. That way they can make "new seat" money, look
good in
front of the board of directors, and present figures that (artificially
so)
suggest their market isn't completely stagnant and deadlocked.
The joys of being out in the stock market and having to grow in revenue
and potential revenue every quarter, or suffer an onslaught of sales and
stock depreciation.****
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Daniel Sweeney
<[email protected]>
wrote:****
yeh I have not renewed my subs either because of this as i cannot
justify
the increase. ****
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bit of a joke. a friend said its pretty much the same price for the
bottom
subs of the creation suite.****
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3D Generalist
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*Email:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
<http://northforge.co.uk/>****
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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matt Morris <[email protected]>
wrote:****
I remember bringing this up a while back, talking about the lack of a
silver subscription and an imminent uk price jump. I believe Maurice
replied to say they were looking into it. However, since then it appears
its been basically shelved because softimage customers are mostly on
subscription and it could mean a revenue drop.****
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So that leaves UK customers with a 70% price increase from last year's
subscription. 70%!!! That's a huge amount, and will directly lead to me
cancelling my second licence (which was only used periodically) and
thinking hard about renewing the other. Given that commercials have had
budgets slashed I just can't justify spending that much on a yearly
basis.
Its a shocking decision. Way to go Autodesk.****
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