Autodesk acquires Bitsquid to create their own game engine

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@WalkingDead;236248

I **** you not my good sir.

I told the woman who was the rep that I am not exactly from a first world country. Sure the Caribbean isn’t as badly off as places like Africa and India, we are not remotely close to as badly off as those folks but we still are considered poor. $700 US is actually about $4500 of my money.

I explained to this woman that I cannot for any reason afford their product right now but I am willing to pay for it at a later date after I have saved up the money.
I asked that I be allowed to use the student version of MAYA LT, and when I publish my game and I get some income from it I will pay for the software. She said no so I said ok how about I use the student version of MAYA LT, and when I am ready to release my game I pay you the full asking price of $700 US for the full MAYA LT product?

She said NO you are not allowed to do that and furthermore all work done in the student version cannot be transferred or reused in anyway within the paid for product. You would have to start over from scratch.

I responded to her in my native 3rd world language. I said **** off and go screw yourself, you don’t want my money then I will use blender 3D or find another company who is willing to work with me within my budget and my economy. Its a good thing for Blender.

I think it would be cool if EPIC released a 3D modeling software like Blender, I wonder why EPIC has never released one though?

That’s Autodesk in a nutshell. I find it really sad that they put the “We <3 indies” in their Maya LT video. It’s so transparent it’s sad really, they don’t give a single **** about the smaller people and know that people are going to continue their bug-ridden junk softwares until the end of time, since they pretty much have monopoly. There are big bugs in 3ds that have been there since at least 2008, that are still there today, that if anything proves how little they care. With every release the majority of plugins and scripts die, no forward thinking at all. That said, I prefer 3ds to all other modeling packages, but that doesn’t mean I like it.

Also, I don’t think Epic should make a 3D modeler, the time and energy it would take for that to be usable and even come close to the power of the current industry standard packages would just not be worth it. There are too many features that are needed before something like that could even be usable at all. It’s better that they focus on UE.