Once factoring the time and energy lost because of bugs inevitably slipping through fresh releases, the time it may take to port one's ui and shortcuts, and other small annoyances quickly piling up, it's safe to say that upgrading every time there is a new version out there is a net negative. In other words : no, you don't need the most recent version of a software to make great work. I'd speculate that the next big one (requiring a paid upgrade) would be 2021 or so. If anything I highly doubt that they will count each year as a paid upgrade. Because you can just buy it once, and keep using it for, well, forever at no additional cost - without being forced to upgrade, and without necessarily having to shell out 100USD for the next update. ![]() So the same goes for this new business model : even if the upgrade from 2019 to the next one turns out to be something like 100USD or so, the perpetual 895USD license is still the one to go for for a daily user. Regarding the future cost of upgrades : it's also good to remember that even if an update is free, that doesn't mean that it is a necessary upgrade. I really dont want to pay for upgrade either but its hard to complain when I have not had to pay for one for since I bought the software in 2011 and if/when they do start it probably wont be the full price of the software. They are not going to list an upgrade price if they are not requiring people to pay for an upgrade. I'm hoping they just left out upgrade costs because they have no plan in place yet for it. Even Modo, which is full-featured 3D software with sculpting, modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, rendering, etc is only $400 a year after the initial purchase. The only software I'm aware of with a higher cost comes from Autodesk. I agree they deserve to start getting recurring payments, but $900 a year is insane. They saturated their own market very well, the free updates needed them to grow the market all the time to keep making money and to pay their staff to work on it. They needed to monetize zbrush at one point, I am actually surprised it didnt happen earlier. ![]() That is not expensive by any means, for a tool as important as zbrush. we are speaking about 360 dollar per year. Didnt find anything for future upgrades yet tho.īut talking about 30 bucks a month as being one of the most expensive tools is a little far fetched.
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