A Sad Day..... time to accelerate plans to switch to Blender?

[piotrus3333]

The thing is though companies like Autodesk buy up competitors to minimise competition and then lock you in. I'm looking from an AEC perspective, not only 3d modelling. And you also aren't "completely free" to change programs when there is an ecosystem around it (plugins/libraries/asset subscriptions/etc). That also locks you in.

In the end it's a financial calculation whether moving everything to another ecosystem is worth the time and cost. For us it isn't, and the vray pricing also isn't an issue fortunately, but I also don't feel that a 50% price rise gives a positive signal and only means we will become more open to alternative software in the future.

look at it like this: some of the money people save by ditching VRay will get to Blender Foundation. great!

becoming more open to alternatives is also nice. flexible ones prevail in the long game.

[T0ofic]

You are a goat living in goat simulator.
just remember to have human feelings every now and then.
cheers