We only spotted it had happened when we realised that Maxon’s online store isn’t listing perpetual licences of the latest versions of the three plugin collections: only of the previous releases. Unlike with Redshift, Maxon doesn’t seem to have announced the change in advance. The change makes Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite the latest Maxon products to go subscrption-only, following the firm’s recent decision to drop perpetual licences of the Redshift renderer. The latest Maxon products to go subscription-only The decision became clear with this week’s release of the latest versions of the plugin collections, which are available only via the firm’s Red Giant Complete and Maxon One subscriptions. Eventually I will not miss Maxon and it will not even be on my “nice-to-have” list, which is a bit sad.Maxon has discontinued perpetual licences of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite, the collections of effects and colour grading plugins that it acquired in its recent merger with Red Giant.
But whilst doing so, I am active on getting better with BorisFX and Blender. Mainly because Maxon is suggesting that you do have a choice, whilst making it unnecessarily difficult to buy an perpetual upgrade.Īs said, I’ll keep watching what Maxon does. I agree on the point that many companies are migrating to SaaS.Īdobe has been one of the most successful in doing so.īut when it comes to “nice to have”, like all other subscription services, my Red Giant Trapcode suite has been dropped to the bottom of the list. And, when you have done that, you get a “What do you want?” email back, although you have already specified what it is that you want – that is what happened to me. “ Want to upgrade your perpetual license instead? Contact our sales team or your local reseller.“
It is interesting how they move you from: Just did this little capture to illustrate the problem of UX failures in their “automated” sales process: Maxon and Red Giant sales are broken, and they don’t seem interested in fixing it.
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