This all is just big social experiment... let's see how much ppl can take.. how stupid they are, how much we can shovel down the throat without rebelling.
Stop buying AD crap, lets see how long will they keep Maya and Max then,, what is the limit of income they are willing to "push 3d industry forward, be innovative and help artists give us their mo.. *cough* do their job"... Fing marketing ppl that has no idea about target audience at all. On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Scott Parrish <[email protected]> wrote: > "Sell one seat to a company for lets say 1500$ per year with a chance to > update of 50%. Or sell twelve seats for 125$ each to freelancers and the > probability of selling updates is much higher." > > Starting next year companies will no longer be able to obtain new > permanent licenses either. > It will all be subscription based. Count on the incentives showing up to > swap your permanent licenses to monthly or annual subscriptions, and more > than likely for support of permanent licenses to go away. > > I find the ad insulting on many levels. There is the fact that it may as > well be a marketing campaign for mens casual clothing. It is a generic ad > campaign for Product as Lifestyle. All of the imagery is of people doing > cool stuff that cool people do.. no 3d.. no work. The video following the > guy with vacant bloodshot eyes (arguably the only authentic part of the > video) around his day being a cool guy involves about 5% of him tumbling > and pondering a mesh before getting back to his cool guy duties like being > dressed good for the MUNI bus and the club. > > This feels very idiocracy-like and I think strongly reflects on the people > making decisions at Autodesk. I do not want to give these people money and > this is one of the bigger motivations I've had to pursue Fabric, Houdini > and Modo and transition away from Maya. > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Sven Constable <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This video insists that freelancers should take the cost of software >> licensing instead of the companies they are working for. To me it looks >> like ADSK starts to shift business to starving freelancers because they >> didn’t succeed on forcing companies to go subscription. Makes sense busines >> wise, because freelancers want to stay current with the software even it >> has no real production value. Freelancers want to stay current because they >> think no one will here them otherwise. >> >> Sell one seat to a company for lets say 1500$ per year with a chance to >> update of 50%. Or sell twelve seats for 125$ each to freelancers and the >> probability of selling updates is much higher. >> >> >> >> sven >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [ >> mailto:[email protected] >> <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Scott Parrish >> *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2015 12:35 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Get rid of your flip phone and get current on maya! >> >> >> >> Anybody see this today? >> >> Barf! >> >> >> >> http://www.autodesk.com/campaigns/your-life-maya >> > >
