gillbrooks posted at 8:17AM Fri, 25 January 2019 - #4341322

Why the need for alternatives? I'm using 2015 Infinite and had already decided to stop there as the upgrades, to me seemed pointless. Mostly new features that I don't need or use. Just because it's now subscription only doesn't mean that you can't continue to create in your current version. As they have stated, it's yours, you own it - the licence to use it at very least. The only possible problem may occur if at some future point, your new OS won't support it. Although for me, I would like to continue using Win 8.1 untill I falls off me perch.

The whole point being, why change just because you can't get the shiny, new "latest" version? If it works, why change ??

For me, it's because I have a random bug that deletes all the texture maps and/or makes them ignore lighting. It's an issue that E-on was made aware of relativity early on when 2015 was released. I was not,in fact, the first (or second) to report the bug. E-on either was unable to, or couldn't be bothered to, fix it. The only current cure is to delete the Vue 2015 folder in Local/Apps/Roaming and redo all your preferences. And resign yourself to the fact that unless you had recently saved the file under a different name, however many hours of work you've put into this scene have been wasted. It's obviously not a minor bug that can just be ignored.

I had intended on upgrading to 2016 after Christmas, only to find that E-On changed pricing so that instead of $595 to own the software outright, I could instead pay $795 for a single year. Unless I can find someone who is willing to sell me 2016, I'm done with Vue.

And for the record, I'm not blindly opposed to a subscription model. In fact, that's how i finally managed to score Photoshop. The difference being that Photoshop costs $11 a month and I can install it on any two computers (and in fact, can bounce it back and forth between computers so long as I only have it on two computers at any given time).