Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 01:16:22 UTC No. 839905

Hobbyist shitters will seethe, pros deduct from taxes and don't care.

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:33:31 UTC No. 839916

>>839905
It's not that simple. If I record an expense of 100 euros, I can deduct that, but that means (assuming a 20% income tax) that I'll save 100 * 0.20 = 20 euros on taxes. So it's as if my expense was 80 euros. But if I don't have to pay it in the first place, I save 100 euros instead of only 20.

Likewise, if I can avoid subscription because I have a perpetual, I save the whole cost of subscription instead of only its 20%.

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:41:41 UTC No. 839919

>>839916
Sounds bad eurobro, consider moving your business to a more favorable location.

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:11:52 UTC No. 839946

if they can get monthly down to $15/mo they'll eat otoy's lunch and effectively capture the entire hobbyist market

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:20:40 UTC No. 839947

I hate these niggers.

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:29:50 UTC No. 839956

>>839946
Octane is free* for Blender, UE/Unity and Daz.

*1 GPU limit, doesn't work without internet connection

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:39:00 UTC No. 840076

>>839905
If I could deduct it I would have just renewed my maintenance you fucking retard. The whole reason they're doing this is because nobody bothered upgrading, and making your product worth buying is just such a hassle when you can SaaS your shit and laugh all the way to the bank.

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:23:16 UTC No. 840086

>>840076
>because nobody bothered upgrading
Studios should have been updating if only for maintenance, right? Maybe Redshift is doing well, and this is just Maxon trying to extract more money from customers.

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:27:04 UTC No. 840089

>>840086
>Maybe Redshift is doing well
It isn't.
They have become lame asses, doing unnecessary shit while the competition isn't sleeping.

Anonymous at Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:00:34 UTC No. 840093

>>840089
i'm guessing they're doubling down on speed and dedicating most resources to redshift RT, which, if it lands soon-ish + delivers decent image quality would be interesting.

Anonymous at Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:57:39 UTC No. 840109

>>840093
>redshift RT
nobody gives a shit about that.

Anonymous at Wed, 21 Jul 2021 05:32:06 UTC No. 840138

>>839905
>deduct from taxes means it's free
child detected

Anonymous at Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:27:48 UTC No. 840293

David McGavran, CEO of Maxon, essentially admitted that managing subscription and perpetual licensing systems at the same time is too complicated and confusing for Maxon.

Anonymous at Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:29:57 UTC No. 840294

>>840293
This guy, by the way, spent 20 years at Adobe.

Anonymous at Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:32:21 UTC No. 840295

>>840109
lol okay, man

Anonymous at Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:41:10 UTC No. 840324

>>839889
sounds like the company is dying, and this is a desperate attempt to save it.

Anonymous at Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:32:28 UTC No. 840431

>>840293
Huh, didn't Maxon introduce an subscription model themselves ?

Anonymous at Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:35:35 UTC No. 840470

>>840089
It could be that.

Anonymous at Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:42:14 UTC No. 840518

How is Redshift better than Arnold or Vray (or any of the other renderers) anyway ?

Anonymous at Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:48:42 UTC No. 840519

>>840518
It's faster, although more limited in other aspects: poor volume support, scene size limited by VRAM, comparatively slow IPR, arguably "gamey" look, has (compared to V-Ray) no perpetual licensing anymore, and requires being online to work (unless you reach a custom agreement with Maxon). There are some positives, like good integration with certain apps (such as Houdini), OSL support, or built-in denoisers.

Anonymous at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 03:04:20 UTC No. 840567

this is the only way to survive these days. your gay little renderer or plugin or extension has to pull in enough income to support dozens and dozens of employee families and homes and lives. you're chasing a bargain while they're chasing dinner on the table. any minute now we're going to subscribing to premiere features like cut and paste. actually cut will be bronze tier, paste will be gold tier and cut+paste will be platinum preferred customer

Anonymous at Fri, 23 Jul 2021 05:13:38 UTC No. 840575

>>840567
shut up