Ditto. We have roughly 65-70 Soft licenses under maintenance, are located in the West, owned by a Korean company who's largest shareholders are Japanese venture capitalists, and are the largest publishers worldwide of games in our genre. I don't think it's had any influence with AD.
Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 5:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ensuing Chaos If I knew or if we were to I probably couldn't say it publicly within my NDA. But honestly speaking? I just don't know, nor have i given it much consideration. Personally, and this is me, nothing to do with AL, I'm so tired of the whole commercial software thing since AD established absolute dominance I've stopped caring much for any of them a while ago. IMO there's this common misconception AD might give a fraction of a fast moving orbital fuck about any of their Western M&E clients when it comes to Soft, but in my experience and that of my connections that's simply not true to any relevant extent. Sure, you might get in with some devs or PMs, get some early access, previews, participate in some programs, and have a friendly relationship and so on, but ultimately when it comes to sales or the board nobody has the dullest of hooks in there. This is not to say the people in there, the real people, are anything short of fantastic (some devs, leads and PMs are actually really nice, involved and friendly), at least some of them, but the overall mechanism is just not conducive any more to clients like the ones I work for to be truly catered for, not to the extent smaller firms do. I don't even hate Autodesk for it to be honest, it's a corp, it obeys rules that paint us out of the picture. It'd be like getting mad at gravity the next time I fall on my ass :p If anybody has any swing with AD whatsoever when it comes to Soft it could only be a Japanese client, or some of them associating (unlikely to happen culturally). I can't think of anybody outside of Japan with a triple digit number of seats under maintenance. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hey Raff Does Animal Logic have the weight to ask Autodesk for a site license? As a parting gift... Steven
