{"id":561,"date":"2016-01-20T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2016-01-20T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T00:02:14","slug":"subscription-based-licensing-youre-doing-it-wrong-autodesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Subscription-Based Licensing; You’re Doing it WRONG, Autodesk!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here it is, exactly one week before my birthday, and looking at Autodesk’s site this morning, I stumbled across a wonderful little present they’ve decided to give me; as of the 31st, they will no longer offer the perpetual licenses that I have been hoping to one day be able to afford, opting instead for an equally unaffordable subscription plan. Fuck me, right?!<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, they won’t even be offering suites anymore.<\/del> (See update at bottom!)<\/em> \u00a0You used to be able to get a whole suite of apps, such as 3D Studio Max, Inventor, AutoCAD and a ton of others, together for, what? Nine grand, one time? Now, you’ve got to pay like $1,900 a year just for Inventor. \u00a0Which is fine for all their big corporate customers who make all their software purchases without a second thought anyway, but any individual who isn’t a student is basically fucked<\/em>. \u00a0Leaving people like me with no choice but to continue ‘stealing’ their software.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I know, “What could some unwashed underachieving\u00a0poor<\/em> like you possibly know about such things?” Well, for starters, I can do\u00a0the maths*<\/em>, so that makes exactly one of us, Autodesk. \u00a0I also know that when Adobe launched Creative Cloud in May 2012, and went Subscription-only a year later, they didn’t try to put the screws to their customers and make it too expensive for individuals and micro-businesses.\u00a0 An individual can get the whole fucking Creative Cloud suite– which actually has more apps than the old Creative Suite ever did –for $49.99 a month. \u00a0That’s affordable. \u00a0So affordable that it’s actually less trouble to go legit than to keep pirating it. Think about that. \u00a0Adobe made the Creative Cloud so inexpensive\u00a0that it’s literally not worth the hassle\u00a0to steal it<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And you tell me, even with\u00a0such low prices…how’s Adobe doing?<\/h5>\n

\"learntomaths\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Spoiler Alert:<\/strong> Their stock price has almost TRIPLED since they began offering Creative Cloud,
\na\u00a0subscription plan so cheap\u00a0that even poor-ass people like me can afford it.<\/h5>\n

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And because some people just have to be taught visually…
\nadditional art<\/em> courtesy of Google Finance<\/a>:<\/h5>\n

\"moreartthanmaths\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Click to embiggen.)<\/h6>\n
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*<\/strong> Oh, right, ‘the maths’… I almost forgot. \u00a0How many people out there do you suppose pirate your software, Autodesk? What if you made the subscription price more reasonable and even just ten percent<\/em> of those people started paying for it? \u00a0Well, you know what they’re paying you now?\u00a0In the immortal words of the hero of Canton<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Ten percent of nothin’ is, let me do the math here…
\nnothin’ and a nothin’, carry the nothin’…”<\/h3>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong> Okay, so it turns out you\u00a0can<\/span> get a Suite subscription, the site was just harder to navigate than it should have been\u00a0and there’s some UI\/UX people who need to be shot out of cannons. \u00a0Not that it really matters, I mean, sure a\u00a0whole suite is maybe $2,000 to $3,200 a year, instead of $1,900+ a year for one friggin’ app…but $160-260\/month still<\/span> isn’t\u00a0affordable for the kinds of users I’m talking about. Plus, there should be an a la carte suite option so people aren’t saddled with a lot of apps they’re not going to use just because they want more than one app at all.<\/h5>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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