If they were so “confident” in our having the complete suite would be a great value, they would allow us to make the decision with all the information in front of us, rather than put the short date to blindly take or leave the one year offer.

For now I’ll pass on the 50% offer (only until August 5th!) I am deeply suspicious of it. Personally, I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Perpetual licenses will become an after thought, perhaps handled by service agreement (such as the old MSA) or by significant annual fees (think 30-50% of perpetual license cost) for upgrades. My guess is they haven’t said anything (except perpetial liceses aren’t “going away”) is that they primary method of updates will be subscription, similar to what Adobe has done with Substance. It’s been more than six months since the acquisition and they still haven’t spelled out anything except that free updates are going away (no suprise.) It would be nice if they put some effort into spelling out, clearly, what updates will cost and what maintenance subsbscriptions (if offered) will cost. This would seem to prevent me from running ZB on my laptop (at least from a licenses perspective–not sure how they intend to manage ZB licenses in the future.)

I was interested in the MaxonOne offer until I read the footnotes that it can only be installed on one machine and the products can’t be split between machines. If my past experience with C4D is any indication when they went from maintenance to subscription, I would suppose that our perpetual licenses will at least work for a while, even if they’re not upgraded. updates) of existing Zbrush perpetual licenses will cost, and how those updates will be handled, the offer is provided in something of vaccum of information.

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