According to Studio Daily, Autodesk has stated that information will be disclosed in October regarding expanded options for renting its software, and also clarified that perpetual licenses will be maintained. Read the report on Studio Daily.
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Honestly, did anyone not see this coming after Adobe’s move?
I guess it makes sense from a business point of view.
My only hope is that “perpetual licenses will be maintained” not only for a year or so but actually stay as a permanent option.
If (and only if) they can stick to that promise, it’s good news, more options and lower entry costs are always great.
I’m relieved to hear that they are keeping the perpetual license, unlike Adobe.
so, the Adobe master collection used to sell for around £3000 give or take a few pounds.
3dsmax, maya and softimage are “around” £3000 for EACH app.
1. adobe cloud yearly fee fore the master collection for rental works out at £49 per month or £576 per year.
2. 3dsmax subscription currently for a year is £516 if you have already spent £3000 on buying the software.
3. houdini FX is £3000 to buy or rent it for £1284 ($2000) a month (eeek!) or $6000 a year to rent annual fee
so where will Autodesk pitch their pricing?
if they keep subscription and ADD rental then rental should be more expensive than subs as you have no requirement to BUY the app?
a ball park guess?
£75-£100 a month for one of their 3d apps like Maya, Max or softimage (based on a 12 month contract)
£150 -£200 a month for a suite? (based on a 12 month contract)
although looking at houdini..they could be MUCH more.
my guess is that autodesk will only offer the suite as rental and they are pushing suites and not individual apps in recent years.
[24/08/2013 19:33:43] steve g [cresshead]: looking here:
http://www.autodesk.com/products/inventor-lt-family/buy
their $1500 to buy app is $95 per month
maya is $3600 to buy or about double the price…so i good guess is that maya will be for example $200 a month rental.
[24/08/2013 19:34:36] steve g [cresshead]: and i guess autodesk will simply change the symbol for uk sterling or euro’s as usual!
Wanted to drop some lines here, but Austris has already put it in a nutshell. Exactly what I was thinking.
They already had a limited rental model of a sort, except you couldn’t renew. Which seemed absolutely pointless, more of an extended (paid) trial.
It’s useful to have as an option if your ramp production up and down – the only question I’d have is how licensing works for various plugins – some use MAC addresses, some the Max Licence, some other forms of hardware ID.
It would be a lot easier if it was a bit more flexible, but used a uniform system.
sidefx does rental? i had no idea.
I’ve heard whispers of the rental price being quite steep compared to Adobe’s. Around 400 dollars a month here in Scandinavia. Not sure if that was for one package or the entire suite. I’m crossing fingers that the prices will be affordable for one-man-shows such as me.
Had to laugh at this quote though:
Bass stressed that Autodesk wasn’t upending its existing model, but augmenting it. “Recall that, just 10 years ago, we added subscription maintenance to our revenue stream,” he said. “That was a big change at the time, and there was no shortage of skeptics. Today, that’s a billion-dollar business and represents over 40% of our revenue. Suffice it to say that transition was a huge success.”
A huge success for who? That guy must be talking to the shareholders!
Rune, there is no real surprise there!
Just using the phrase “revenue stream” indicates that the software is irrelevant to the people at the top. It’s all just numbers.
well if $99 a month turns out to be true i’ll dump subscription for 3dsmax in a heart beat.
here’s the thing to consider…if i miss out on subscription for longer than a year…to get back on subscription i have to pay 70% the full retail value of 3dsmax (rrp £3600) to get back on the train so to speak…if you make rental $99 then there’s no requirement for subscription for me and the threat of 70% to jump back on disapears…rental gives me lower cost and more freedom to choose.
the whole idea of buying a license and subscription will be totally unpalatable at that point.
Autodesk lose their 70% fine threat to keep you on subscription.
what’s the competition doing?
you can rent Houdini for $2000 a month….yeh that’s right TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS a month.
the whole idea of autodesk doing Maya rental at $99 a month seems to be a fantasy when you look at that.
rumour has it that Autodesk rental will be $400 a month and will probably be only for a entertainment suite, which could be
Maya+ Motion Builder + Mudbox or looking at Nuke rental below…could actually be for just Maya.
also you can rent Nuke for £960 per 3 months which is £320 a month for an app that retails at £2998.80 inc vat
[LINK=”http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/cart/item.php?product_id=900&buy_or_rent=rent”]http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/cart/item.php?product_id=900&buy_or_rent=rent[/LINK]
yeh i’d love to see the $99 a month for maya but being realistic and looking around at what’s happening in the actual marketplace it simply doesn’t add up. I hope i’m wrong though eh!
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/autodesk-maya-lt-game-development,24010.html
Cut-down Maya aimed at game devs (think GMax) pitched at $750 outright or $50/month
I believe Autodesk trialed Media & Entertainment rentals in Australia earlier this year.
They offered Maya or Max on an extended 90 day licence for $300.