I have been having some private threads on this and will break out to the group a little technical than what Maurice has been describing.
Every license of softimage out there today from v 1.0 to 2015 is permanent. No one can stop you from using those licenses. Some of the private threads are simply Soft users who are on an older version wanting to understand how they can get the latest version or get some more seats. Autodesk will release service packs for 2015 for the next two years so in 2016 there will be an official last service pack from Autodesk. As many have said they will continue to use that as long as possible. I still have a Shake seat that I open up to do work and the license still works. For those that want to take advantage of the transition offer you can get a license from us that will be Softimage 2015 + either Maya 2015 or 3dsmax 2015. For suites anyone on the Premium suite will be upgraded to the Ultimate suite for 2015 which will include Softimage. To get that offer you have to be on subscription. In the original plan we were going to remove Softimage 2015 from those two paths after two years. In the new plan Softimage 2015 will stay on in those licenses so if you are on Maya or ECS 2018 and on subscription it will start up Softimage 2015 and so on. This will allow people to keep working with Soft or use it to open old setups. Hope this helps clarify what we are doing. cv/ ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Christoph Muetze [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Did the offer really change? I've just been told that accessing "prior" versions might mean that softimage 2015 will stay in all future license files of the MYECS. is that true? Can somebody please confirm this to me? Thanks! Chris On 10/03/14 13:08, Christoph Muetze wrote: > On 10/03/14 12:42, Alastair Hearsum wrote: >> I've taken out the sentence referring to the threat of discontinuing >> Softimage licenses if the Maya offer is taken up. > > They didn't change their position on this afaik. They just rephrased > it imho. > > Read carefully what Maurice wrote: > > ------ > > 1. You make the transition and let your subs expire before April > 30th 2016. > In this case you will retain the right to use both Softimage 2015 and > whatever version of Maya you were on at the time your contract expires > in perpetuity. > > 2. You make the transition, remain on Subscription after April > 30th 2016, but choose not to install any future versions of Maya after > that date. In this case you would also be able to keep both your Maya > and Softimage versions frozen in perpetuity if you wish to. It is only > on installing software that you have to accept a new license > agreement. Any licenses that you have purchased are yours in > perpetuity and are only replaced on installing new software. > > 3. You make the transition, remain on Subscription after April > 30th 2016, and install a new version of Maya after that date. In this > case the new license will replace the transition bundle license and > will be Maya only. Previously that meant losing access to Softimage. > With the changes we have just made you will now be able to access > Softimage via Subscription in the same way as you can access prior > versions today. > > ------ > > > ..so basically nothing really changed from the original "offer", right? > > The way I understand it there is no way that I can use my current Maya > Entertainment Creation Suite, stay on Subscription and fire up > Softimage 2015 next to Mudbox 2019 in 4 years time.. > > :/ > > Chris > > > > > > >
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