because i promise you, i am NOT sticking with just Blender. I Just wish this would be over with, either Maxon is going to buy them out, they don’t get bought out, or Pixologic listens to the fans and backs out (Best outcome) i just want to know the length of Rope im about to be Hung with, and figure out the best Solution for this going forward. I sincerely hope Maxon will prove me wrong, and this will mark a new phase of artist-friendly pricing, support, and development. Maxon would be crazy to blow this chance to get into more developers & studios where Zbrush is already a sculpting mainstay.
My bet is that functionality will continue to improve for at least while, but tilt into the Maxon universe. Since Pixologic doesn’t discuss roadmap (nor do I expect them to start now) only future will be able to say if there is more or less investment in functionality over the next five years. I think this acquisition will be very good for people in the Maxon universe where C4D is their main platform, but sadly for artists, hobbyists, or anyone where C4D is not their main platform, it’s likely to be a loss in terms of costs. Of course, this is pure speculation on my part, but having done business with Maxon for more than a decade and lived through their monetization shifts from reasonably priced upgrades to Maxon Service Agreement (now discontinued) to subscribe-or-pay-through-the-nose regardless of how little development for the year (the current model), I am not hopeful. My fear is with the conspicuous lack of details in the Pixologic acquisition, they’re thinking similar. If you start adding Redshift and Red Giant into the mix, the Maxon One subscription looks to be a better 5-year deal. Unless you use C4D all the time, they are driving you to a subscription. (Admittedly you’re vulnerable to price increases by subscribing, but I am assuming they will similarly raise the maintenance prices.)
MAXON CINEMA 4D COST LICENSE
of free updates with your perpetual license, you’d need to another 80% (or more) in maintenance costs to keep your perpetual license up to date over five years.įor five years of C4D use, this means you’re at somewhere north of 180% of the perpetual license cost for the privilege of a perpetual license and 100 to 105% of the perpetual license cost to just subscribe. If you fall off their perpetual license treadmill, they really sock it to you with a whopping 62% of a new perpetual license to get back on.Īn annual subscription runs about 21% of a perpetual license, so five years of subscribing is more or less the equivalent of one, un-upgraded version of the perpetual license.
MAXON CINEMA 4D COST UPGRADE
It’s worth noting is to version upgrade a perpetual license of C4D from R23 or later to R25 is 29% of a new perpetual license, which is greater than a year of just subscribing. (The US perpetual license for C4D is $3495.) The US price lists were similar in proportion but lifted in amounts for dollars.
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