Thank you for being a long-time V-Ray user and for sharing how your costs have increased over the years, we do value such feedback and take it into consideration when forming future policies. Robin, I truly understand your concerns regarding the increased pricing of our products. Maybe an indie license, especially for the render nodes, would be a fair solution to make Vray still affordable for people like me. I really like to work with Vray and appreciate what Chasogroup did for the community in the past, but please don`t forget small studios and freelancers. i would have expected and welcomed at least stable prices as the former upgrade costs for Vray 4 in 2018.
This is a progress which really bothers me and i see parallels to Autodesk pricing policy, like raising the maintainance subscriptions costs every year and having less new features and upgrades worth the increasing costs.Įspecially in times of unrest because of Covid-19 and global recession. For the first time Vray will costs me more then my 3dsmax maintainance license ( which also had rapidly increased costs in the last 3 years btw. When supposing that in 2022 Vray 6 will propably being released, i will have costs of 1155 $ / year, so again 37 % higher then before.
I totally agreed with that.įrom 2018 to 2020 i now had costs of 845 $ / year, so 300 % higher then in the years before. When upgrading in 2018 i was already disappointed about the pricing and had a conversation with Antonia from Chaos Support who pointed out, that my costs from 2012 till 2018 were 1670 € or 2 80 € / year for 1 WS and 10 Render nodes.which was pretty fair. Vray 3 > 4 in 06/2018 = 1690 $ with 2 years of updates, no major upgrades ( in my opinion ). Vray 2 > 3 in 06/2014 : 958 $ with 4 years of updates and major upgrades like 3.5 till 2018 !!! What really stands out when watching on my upgrade costs from Vray 2 up to Vray 5 is a massive increase: I have lots of downtimes for my renderfarm, because i don`t use it when doing stills or setting up the scene, shading, lighting, animating for later rendering, etcetera.i would estimate using it only 2 months per year, for the rest of the time it`s down. I think for freelancers who have to find a balance for the best value for their used CPU ( price per core ) and numbers of servers, it`s somehow adverse. Just upgraded my servers at the end of 2019 with affordable 1950X threadripper Cpu`s, but it seems to be more efficient to have bought instead 24,32 or 64 core CPUs to reduce the amount of rendernodes. I could live with the 600 $ for the workstation upgrade, but the rendernodes ( 1710 $ ) are getting way too expensive for me. As a freelancer with 1 workstation and 10 render node license i will have to pay 2310 $ ( for upgrading from Vray Next 4 to 5 ). Well, i`m somehow getting frustrated about the pricing for the upgrades to Vray 5.
0 kommentar(er)
