On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 1:01 PM, olivier jeannel <[email protected]> wrote: > There are still potential new customers to invest in XSI, no ? I blindly > believe I'm not a dying race.
not sure.. XSI was just 450$ for four years and people hesitated to get it anyway. It should have taken the market by storm at that point. I've got a lot of opinions on all subjects - :P - but I'm really not sure why that didn't happen. > Not sure an hypothetic Fxtree rebuild would "save" SI, though. It's just too > bad it has been completly abandonned, with no new (even small) improvements. > Since we're a Particle software, I'm just hopping Ice developpement will > continue to be the strong part of XSI. > Weirdly, since AD bought us correspond to a time of "prosperity" for SI > users . I mean, there are now a very big amount of Compounds and Addons > available, much more then back in the Xsi-base days. Then again Autodesk bought Softimage only four months after ICE was released.

