I don’t think they will put any price changes into place. Its never been an ADSK strategy to do so. Personally I think it is really hurting their business to ignore the up and coming software and their price strategies.
I was shopping around myself recently for a project with a mate of mine (as my current commercial version of SI is 7.5) ADSK commercial is just way out of reach for us price wise. Maya LT in this case just has too many restrictions to be considered. I basically have the following options 1. Work in blender (currently not my fav choice as I really don't like the blender way of selection) Although we may very well use it for compositing. 2. Work in my current commercial version of 7.5 and something else for my mate. 3. Purchase 2 commercial licenses for Modo which as far a business expense is concerned affordable (just) As it stands at the moment we will most likely go for option 3. One thing I do hope happens because of Maya LT is the unbundling of the default renderer. Hopefully it will pave the wave for us to either choose our own renderer at purchase time or get them to drop the price a bit so we can buy our own. Kind regards Angus From: Martin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday 30 August 2013 9:51 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: How to read .MEL script in Softimage I don't know AD plans, but from what I'm seeing, I think one of the goals is to expand Maya market and increase it's population with a cheap MLT, so their users would naturally try to stay within their comfort zone and eventually upgrade to Maya when or if they do. If that's so, offering a MLT rival like a SoftimageLT wouldn't be a good deal for AD. Besides, all the production that involves releasing a SoftimageLT wouldn't be easy or cheap. Keep Maya in the big companies and change the SI target to the mid-small companies would have been an interesting move, but it seems that the goal is to make everything mayan. I know they don't want to push SI, or "make it better" than Maya, so If they are going to treat SI like a plugin or third rate product, shouldn't also change the price accordingly? On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Nicolas Esposito <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: mmmhh...prices are not that bad...but let me ask you this guys: If there was some kind of rental deal for SI without more or less the same features, lets say something similar to the Mod Tool, but without ICE and without rendering and scripting, could that be a good deal in your opinion? >From what I've seen a lots of studios ( obviously depends which one ) uses SI >mainly for cinematics and animations, while they do everything else inside 3ds >or Maya 2013/8/29 Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> n Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Greg Maguire <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> The Maya LT model is really rental, it's between 33$ to 40$ per month > > More like "Maya LT will be offered on $50/Month. With Quarterly, and Annual > rental options that will also be available." > > No scripting and no set-driven keys is a deal-breaker for me. > > it's 50$ month-to-month, 41$ per for 3 months, and 33$ per month for 12 months. <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
