You're absolutely correct, I made the mistake of thinking that by paying my support I was supporting Softimage.
I think I would've had better luck putting that money towards winning the lottery so I could buy back Softimage from Autodesk. Buying into the suite was my biggest mistake... I was happy to pay for people to be working on Softimage because that is the program I use out of the suite. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2013, at 7:04 PM, "Massimo Galluzzo" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 render engine that is utterly outdated (yet we pay the price for it), not 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 integrated fully, with poorly implemented features, and completely outdated 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
