Retrowave opened this issue on Dec 23, 2019 ยท 268 posts
Retrowave posted Sat, 28 December 2019 at 5:08 PM
Doesn't matter, Shane, their stock is the result of their expansion since then, which is understandable considering the amount of products they sucked up, forcing users into a subscription in order to keep using what they were already used to using.
Autodesk have their hands in various industries, so while they have some time to go yet before their design market domination is brought to an end, they do not fare so well where Blender is the competing product. It's not surprising their users are aggravated, they constantly pay-out a subscription to access whatever Autodesk announce, and they do so knowing that Blender users will get everything the the Blender Foundation announces, free of charge.
Blender's business model has been sucking subscribers away from Autodesk for some time now, believe it, and as Blender gets more and more powerful, more and more will drop their Autodesk subscription and jump ship to Blender. I think we're at a point now where pretty much all Max and Maya users will have Blender installed anyway, will be getting themselves accustomed to it, and will jump ship completely only when they're comfortable with it enough do whatever they would normally do in Max and Maya.
Blender will become the industry standard, it's not even a matter of if anymore, it's just a matter of when.