Bruno,
yer way too positive about this ;)

The vast majority of Vue users are not studios,  and as I noted, what damn near killed a lot of the big apps was them getting too arrogant and greedy so they priced themselves out of  the reach of anything but studios and pirates...which wrecked their legit user base.

Vue is an art app, not an ICBM launch control software! :D
ANYONE can now use any version of Vue, except Xstream plugins (as that requires another app), on their home PCs, right?
What I'm saying about 3 versions of Vue, is to fit Vue to the 3 types of real user there are:

-Beginners/happy to be amateurs who don't need more expense/hassles
-dedicated amateurs/semi-pro (which many here are)
-Pro and/orstudio (who only need Vue for landscape/plant combined with their main feature app such as 3DMAX)

Vue is merely an ADD ON app to the "Big boys" and here E-On better get it's act together, for it's real support is the amateurs, not the pros, who may drop it in an instant if a new, better solution comes aorund. Then where will E-On be if they piss off their real dedicated customers?

Wise man never ever angers his core user base, I've seen it happen so often to smart arse corporates who end up wrecking it all or leaving simmering resentment etc.

You do not need ot be, nor should ever encourage Vue to be an arrogant, "studio pro only" app. There is a hell of a lot of snobbery and short sightedness like that out there. Guy on CG talk got lots of compliments, until he said he'd used Poser...

Again, the reality of what E-On has done doesn't matter...they have done it in a way that looks very bad. I love Vue, I want it to continue, E-On is making this less likely by being nitwits in certian areas:
over complexity, over priced (that graph proves it obviously); not being saavy in how they do things with customers.
If they had any sense they'd make 7.5 free or have done things a LOT better, jeesh.

Oh, and Bruno, I've always liked Nixon's statement: "When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will surely follow!"
Works for me, especially with a good old fashioned mole grip! :D

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