Hi Henry, This really doesn't sound like a nice story. I can imagine that this pissed you off completely. I hope you find all the things you need in Realsoft. It's a great tool with a lot of possibilities. But it will take some time to discover them all.
btw C4D is still fighting for its position I think. They just offered the latest release 11 at 50% reduction. I guess a new version is coming soon. I'm afraid 3D companies have very difficult times nowadays. It really frightens me that Autodesk owns three major applications at the moment. Will we end up like in the OS war? I liked it much more when there were the Amiga and the Atari beside Windows and Mac. Arjo. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Henry Tjernlund Verzonden: vrijdag 10 juli 2009 19:09 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: Snapping I'm not talking about Maxon's (Cinema 4D) tech support. I'm sure that its great. I'm talking about their corporate attitude toward students, faculty, and hobbyist. Years ago Maxon (like RealSoft won) used to be agressive about getting their software into the hands of new users. They re-released their old version 6 as 6CE (or maybe 6SE) at something like 1/10th its original price. They promoted this in magazines like 3D World much like RealSoft did just this last month. Their academic version had a single price of about $250 and the license didn't expire. Now they are different. Maxon's lowest academic price is only for full time students/faculty who are using C4D. Otherwise its about double that price. ($500 starts to get pretty prohibitive.) Also the license of the latest academic version of C4D expires after a couple years. (which makes it more costly for non-traditional students that are in a slower part-time student situation, as they have to pay to renew the license.) Maxon no longer re-releases old versions to hobbyists like I am now. They've now achieve a level of success and no longer try to attract new users the way that they did before.
