The problem in my opinion is that people keep paying Autodesk subscription, giving them the chance to keep going this slackery and non-development of everything basically. Untill people will give them money they will do whatever they want without caring about users and clients. This is what happened those years.
Softimage didnt get a solid development since ICE introduction that was 7.5. There are ridicolous problems that still arent fixed. 3d Packages come with a render engine that is utterly outdated (yet we pay the price for it), not integrated fully, with poorly implemented features, and completely outdated workflow. We pay money on top of other money for releases that arent worth the money we spend on them. And even if Luxology isnt the promised land, at least they develop their software. Again, things will change when people stop buying useless suites and outrageus overpriced subscriptions. I share your frustration and disappointment as i’m in the same boat, but i didnt give them the satisfaction to steal my money with trash useless suites and dropped my subscription untill i see a REAL development and future for Softimage. Thats what people should do, see if they keep threating clients and users like that then. my humble 2 cents. From: Greg Punchatz Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:23 AM To: Softimage List Subject: Why did I pay support?? Why did I buy a suite ? I want my moneyback! As I find out more and more about what is going on behind the scenes at at AD in regards to Softimage (plus all the others) the more and more angry I get. And frankly the more I want my support money back, seriously. This has been a huge bait and switch scam.... I feel like I have been consistently lied to about the future of Soft, there is even a video of a "product manager of the week" telling me the future of Softimage is good on the Autodesk site. Buyers remorse is one thing, but frankly no one has been honest with us about where all of this was headed, in fact I would say that I was deliberately lied to by the PR machine that is AD. The video of Daniel Tutino talking about the future of softimage is a prime example of AD misleading us. What's sad if you watch the video, he is acting like a really bad liar . ( I have the video downloaded just in case I need it to back up my case against AD.) First off I wish I would have NEVER bought a suite... I did not want a single dollar of mine going to support Maya, but apparently if you jumped on the suite bandwagon your money went toward a bazzilion Maya developers, even if you checked "softimage is my main interest" in the AD suite surveys. I wanted a Softimage branded suite for that very reason. Now from what I gather soft has less developers than my hand has fingers, and Maya has over a hundred?? WTF are all those developers working on, really? 100 devs working under the bad management of AD guys cant even compete with 15 devs working at an under funded Softimage run by Avid . I am also hugely disappointed in Mudbox... The only thing I ended up using in the whole suite is SOFTIMAGE.. Zbrush and Mari got my personal dollars because they delivered while AD promised. Now Luc Eric is all but saying Mudbox is going into Maya on Softimage forums.... Do the powers that be at AD still think putting everything into one app makes sense?? There is a reason why niche products do a better job at niche work :) I would be happy with if AD made an attempt at a next gen app, I would give that a shot....but I passed on Maya for a reason. I paid my support so Softimage could be developed further....not so AD could put a nail in its coffin. Feeling like I just got robbed... is there something we can do as a group to get our voices heard? Anyone know any good lawyers that will work for next years support money ;) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Punchatz Sr. Creative Director Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com
