If rental is like subscription then you can use previous versions you have bought in the past, so for a newcomer it is as useless as buying it.
So what if, hypothetically, I receive an offer to work in Maya 2012 which I don't own and the payment is good enough to invest on it. With the current system my only option is to reject the job so I don't see how Autodesk wins here. Well, another option would be to reject the job and buy Maya 2015 so maybe I can have another opportunity 3 years later. And 4 years later (2019) odds are I'll have a job offer to work in Maya 2015, which I bought but can't use unless my retailer does some special exception. The solution is simple. Don't restrict the previous versions (even if you haven't bought them), and don't give support to 3+ years old versions if that is what you are afraid of, support is not as important as being able to use the software. Autodesk won't lose money because we still need to buy the latest version and keep paying subscriptions. So Autodesk doesn't understand how the industry works, or they just don't give a shit. Martin Sent from my iPhone > On 2014/08/12, at 4:07, "Jill Ramsay (Contractor)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just to be clear, rental is actually Desktop Subscription, which does include > the right to use the previous version. > > Jill > > -----Original Message----- > > > Yet the only version you can buy or rent is the latest one, which nobody uses > and can't save in previous versions, so it is completely useless for work. > > <winmail.dat>
