Re: Soft licenses still available for purchase?

[Jason S]

If second-hand is an option, then it might would be a potential avenue or at least something. Otherwise, unless being in the rather particular case of being a Softimage studio, (harder to come by these days) or a freelancer, (not even a freelancer at a studios, but actually expecting to do Maya jobs at home), that, or having a considerable amount of extra money to get the bundle for weekend experiments, I don't see how paying perhaps twice what it should be (just for the "...with Softimage" part) can at-all be considered like an even remotely reasonable thing to do. Except Maya is everywhere, and for long time users that know and have used Softimage, this is like the last chance. And for the life of me, I'm sure there must be something possible other than either paying what most would consider a ridiculous amount of money, (just for the "...with Softimage" part) or resorting to cracks. Perhaps a non-commercial version watermarked <Dead>? :/ Or perhaps as you say second-hand might be worth exploring that avenue, & thanks for the pointer. On 09/16/15 3:09, Tim Leydecker wrote: I don´t know about latest developments or newly introduced intricacies but I can report a successful transfer of a Softimage license ownership to me. The process involved a signed document of the previous owner, basically transfering ownership to me, my adress, my signature and a helpful reseller making that transfer happen with Autodesk. If I recall correctly, the transfer process involved a fee but that was dropped in favour of me directly buying subscription support to "help" the transfer process. It´s a while back and it took a while to sort out the Autodesk database to merge multiple stray entries in my customer account listings but in the end, it all worked out. The moment the license ownership was transfered, I never had to get back to the original owner. I saw the document once, signed once and that was it. -- Personally, I don´t see the disturbing problem in getting a Maya+Softimage bundle instead of insisting on just the Softimage license. Or a 3DS Max+Softimage bundle. There is a good chance things change in the future and it seems wise to brace for that by having alternatives ready or to make sure an upgrade or crossgrade option is readily available? 4 grand is steep but that´s in line to the prices rising across the board a while back. I can still remember my first Maya rental license, a month´s usage cost me roughly $2000 then. That is not to say it wouldn´t be desireable to have someone look into the general pricing scheme of things. Of course, something like 20000-2500 dollars would feel better to have to shell out as an unexpected expense that may or may not bring venues. It´s obviously not the same to keep 4 grands in the bank or burried in a license eventually needed. Myself, I wish I could "return" my 3DS Max snippet of my ultimate bundle with the next upgrade and just go with a Maya centric subscription supported box. I never really opened 3DS Max since I went for the ultimate bundle. Just bought it to open a potential client market by being able to say yes to 3DS Max files... -- Cheers, tim Am 15.09.2015 um 23:37 schrieb Graham Bell: I'm not sure its that simple. I looked into this EU ruling in my AD time and l was told at the time by one of the legal guys that its is Autodesk's belief that their license transfer policy is compatible with the EU ruling. I would advise checking with Autodesk and/or one of their partners on this though, if you wanted to take things further. On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 at 22:29, Tom Kleinenberg <zagan...@gmail.com> wrote: I believe in the EU second-hand trading of software licenses are legal. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240214493/Second-hand-software-legal-or-illegal Of course, finding somebody prepared to sell is possibly problematic. On 15 September 2015 at 22:49, Tenshi . <tenshu...@gmail.com> wrote: I was saving for a Softimage license only, i thought i could get one from a reseller but now it's clear that we need to spend 4k for a)software i don't want. b)software that is already dead. This is real? I want my machine to have at least one softimage license, not student or something like that. Really i don't see what is the trouble selling a dead software, what is the cost to that if they're saying those licenses are perpetual, so they don't need any servers to keep checking online? .. I find this whole situation absurd, really. If we have money, we can't buy;, and if they gave us an option the only one is spending too much for something i will not use. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Patrick Neese <patrickne...@gmail.com> wrote: As a hobbyist with a single license...I fear the day I create something worth while that I have to figure out how to render with more than one machine...since I only have one Mental Ray license for softimage.  I'm  trying to learn Maya...  It is unfortunate I can't have a softimage/mental ray license (or 20)  transferred to me from someone who just isn't using the software anymore...or...is that possible? It appears the LSA could allow for a transfer via written approval by Autodesk (2.1.1 of the 2014 LSA) :) It's worth a shot :)