Yes Rob, I agree for the most, and all the responses have the core of reason.
And I totally agree with Raff into Autodesk's incompetence. But then why Autodesk cannot keep shipping Softimage like they did with Toxic and Motionbuilder all this years? Wouldn't it make more sense something like this: *"For all the reasons we said, Softimage is not anymore to be developed further, we will still be incluiding Softimage 2015 last release, with any purchase of Maya/Max without any support after April 2016.* *We are developing new innovative and creative technologies for our M&E division, and want to focus in the ones that are most used in their respective industries."* Now you are going to be able to still have Toxic and Matchmover without license, but not Softimage as Chris stated. *Toxik and Matchmover will be available on Autodesk xchange in a week or two with no eula. You won't need a license to use them anymore.* And Maurice response: *BTW - everything has a cost and implementing and maintaining offerings in our systems is not trivial Maurice* So Toxik and Matchmover don't generate this costs as well? Even that Toxik is still alive it is absolutley dead. I cannot say the same of Matchmover as I know some people is still using it. Trying to take out passion out of the equation, still makes no sense at the loose ends. Just my thoughts. Cheers! ------------------------------------------------------- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation.
