Quote - wow... damn. makes me wonder why people even bother to spend so much cash on buying it... I could so not live with a render engine that would leave me noisy pictures unless it renders for a week or more.

A whole lot of people are actually quite pissed on Next Limit for not keeping their end of the deal.
The thing is that it´s supposed to be a fully working plugin, but somewhere along the line, NL came to the conclusion that they couldn´t speed up the current engine, and started from scratch again. Then they also decided to put most of their effort in making a Studio version instead. This wouldn´t be a bad thing, if it weren´t on the cost of the plugins, which really was what people payed for, and what the majority of the customers want.
This is also one of the reasons they´ve pulled some of the previously planned plugins for a number of programs.

The sad part is that no matter how many times people point this out, NL simply don´t listen, keep working on the Studio, "forget" about the plugins, and still refuse to pay refunds. Not so long ago, even the most loyal users started to get fed up and protested on their forum, resulting in every other thread beeing deleted and mass banning of anyone posting "uncomfortable" questions/pointers. Quite a sight actually, and a threatment of customers i haven´t seen before.

Ok, have to admit that when you get Maxwell to work(RC5), it can produce some extremely slow but fantastic renders. Unfortunatly i could never recommend it to anyone in its current state.
It´s still buggy as hell, has to many limits, lacks several crucial features, scene setup is far to tideous, and you wont get faster renders until the rs2-engine, which will be sold with 2.0(perhaps). ;)

Rudolf Herczog
Digital Artist
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