I never said I couldn't afford it, my problem is the way Softimage is marketed and supported!kiwimation wrote:And if your making money with soft and cant afford $1200 odd a year to maintain your tools then your doing something wrong.
As the years pass under Autodesks ownership, it is becoming increasingly clear that they have no intention of placing it alongside Max and Maya equally, even though it is superior in many ways.
Softimage still doesn't appear anywhere on Autodesks front page, even in the products drop-down menu, it doesn't have it's own suite where it could be bundled with Mudbox and Motion Builder and it gets very little exposure at trade shows. I could go on, but I think everyone here knows what I mean.
This latest insult where it has now become the most expensive of their 3D packages to maintain, due to no access to a lower level subscription could be the final nail in the coffin.
That's why I'm so upset about this, it's because I have less and less confidence that my investment in Softimage is worth it, when it seems that Autodesk are doing everything possible to kill it off and bundle it as a glorified ICE plug-in for Max or Maya. I also feel that this attitude to their own product filters down to magazines like 3D World and 3D Artist, one which has reduced it's Softimage tutorials and coverage to almost nil and the other, which has never supported Softimage at all!
This lack of exposure creates a self-fullfilling prophecy, Autodesk don't market Softimage, therefore it gets no exposure, which means no interest is created, which Autodesk then uses as justification for not marketing Softimage!
The downward spiral continues
