Vray Next a preulde to subscription licensing?

[JD3D_CGI]

With this step of taking version numbers away from Vray, does that mean you are switching to a subscription licence? - that seems to be what happens when companies remove version numbers.

Can you assure us that you aren't going to a subscription license service?

[vlado]

We intend to keep the perpetual licenses.

Best regards,
Vlado

[spyzor]

Thank you !

[themaxxer]

thank you. as a little company I hate these monthly costs, in total I spend a lot of money for my licenses.

[vlado]

Tell me about it... more and more of the software development tools that we use go subscription as well and often there are no obvious benefits except having to dish out money each year...

Best regards,
Vlado

[maxwood]

To offer a countering opinion, I think it depends on how well it's handled.

For full price licensing look at Houdini - they offer different tiers for different customers and very reasonable pricing for freelancers (earning less than $100k). Most importantly you still get all the same features.

For subscriptions look at Corona - it's cheap enough that it doesn't even matter it's a subscription service and you still have the option to buy outright.

For somewhere in between look at Allegorithmic - you can pay a monthly subscription that pays off the cost of owning the software, pay X months and then you own the software.


I don't think the solution is one or the other but having multiple options available and understanding that no two customers are the same is definitely better.

[markus_s_cg]

I don't mind having the option to subscribe, in fact it can be a benefit for short term projects, but I don't like being forced to choose subscription only, like Autodesk and Adobe is doing. Thank you for keeping perpetual licenses as an alternative Vlado!!

[Richard7666]

We intend to keep the perpetual licenses.

Best regards,
Vlado

Awesome to hear.