Imho that could be ethically correct, if they'll be able to do not buy a new version. Like with Modo or C4d, if trial doesn't fit, one will not pay for upgrade, and that's it. But... once everyone is under subscription, only choice is to leave some AD software, sooner or later. For now it seems that AD is playing a very risky business with Maya, by lowering the quality as much as they believe it's possible.Bellsey wrote: The bottomline though is that when there's a update (of any kind) to your software, you always test before deploying. If you don't then you run the risk of things breaking and going wrong. I don't think its fair to blame a software vendor for not doing your own due diligence. If you did, and things are going wrong due to something the vendor has done, well that's different.
These long time Maya users probably will proceed with their fighting to survive, after all, Maya always been more flaky software than others. Some others will not - personally I'll probably keeping Maya LT, but, when guys from local facility asked for advice, does it worth to add some Mayas to existing Maxes, I said, no, what else. Some others will go on Houdini or c4d route (for those who don't know, Maxon even shows a list of names of people permanently employed in their quality check department, and stability exactly fits to what someone will expect from geographic location of developer).
Somehow sad story is Maya these days, especially for few of us who were Maya fanboys, long time ago. But it's reality who says 'no Maya', today...
, or 75th day if we are counting from update 2. Imho it's comparable only with Second Great Mental Ray Nan Pandemic in times of XSI 6, older SI users will remember, at least those who survived 
