Autodesk is a dictator and the way they work is trying to buy everything under sun relate with their field and kill them… same scheme that Rockefeller used many years ago to control everything. who is going to be the next victim?
Wise words from a guy whose signature says “show me the money”!
Do you work for free? I want to see the money before starting a job.
Yes and when Autodesk thinks the same and makes, in my opinion, pretty logical conclusions somehow their actions have “victims”.
I don’t think that Autodesk had the intention to keep it alive at first place… What they do is expansion… Take the users, taking down the competition and after that simplify what they have… They don’t want to have something similar to compete agains their self.
If you read the history of Autodesk you will see that what they are doing is nothing new for them.
If I remember well Autodesk was founded by softimage ex sales director… They acquired a lot companies thru the years and killed many applications.
Sorry for all the Softimage users.. But I see this as a business decision.. In no way a decision related to the quality of the product and/or the user base.
Autodesk Paid 35M$ for something that a decade before worth 258M$.. and they are still shutting it down. I Think that if they would make a little more money out of it with reasonable development costs, they would keep it alive.
I do not think it is a question of controlling everything, it is only a question of making a buck on something.
Every business works in the same way..
Oh yhea.. and others also are trying to make a buck out of this…
Good to hear.
Not defending Adesk, but at least they are doing this:
“We understand that you will now need time to re-evaluate your production capabilities. To help you, we are offering Autodesk Softimage Subscription customers special no-cost options to migrate to either Maya or 3ds Max software while continuing to use Softimage in production”
Perhaps the Chaos Group would let Vray for SI customers migrate as well…
-Alan
We do offer a free cross-grade to V-Ray for Maya or V-Ray for 3ds Max:
Best regards,
Vlado