The bean counters have their hands in this heavily, as they do in all successful businesses, and sometimes takes turns that don't benefit everyone in the ecosystem.Īll that being said, we will be sticking with KS, as the planned expenses are easy for our IT dept to swallow. I do truly believe they take stuff we talk about into consideration, but the loss of a few customers from here are easily made up for on the other end of a higher yearly income from a larger user base customer going from the $400 per year maint to the $1000+ a year subscription. These forums I would guess represent less than 5% of the user base (most likely MUCH lower) so, humbly stating, our opinion won't matter much of a gnats a& hair in the big picture. All businesses large and small need to make those decisions, and they aren't easy nor taken lightly. Its a business decision, not a "feel good lets do this because its better for the customer" decision. The upshot of it all is that they aren't moving this way for no reason, I'm sure they have spent countless hours researching, consulting with their major customers (which admittedly isn't any of us, most likely companies with dozens of user licenses, not one-offs) they have factored in the attrition of loss due to pricing vs higher more stable income for the company with the subscription model from those volume customers. If we are going to be expected to fork out full subscription costs then we will start to phase it out. But it is no longer the only game in town either for realtime rendering or native CAD format reading. We've used it since it was Hypershot Beta. Then we get into add on packages like Corona or Octane - same story.Įven modellers with rendering options are lower cost. Same for Chaos with a V-ray subscription. At that price, it more than doubles the cost of maintaining our investment in Keyshot products, and in this environment that is simply not sustainable.Īdobe Substance package is less than half that cost. If you are introducing subscription to your faithful, fully paid up user base you need to give us more than simply saying "$1188 - take it or leave it". 3/4 of our sofware is subcription based - Adobe/Microsoft/Accounts/Some rendering, some modelling etc. $1188 paid up front for a 12 month subscription? If that is the plan for existing users who purchased the software at full price, then paid for annual maintenance plans since day 1, then it needs to ne reconsidered. upgrades) but the Subscription price is a lower initial price point, which has often been requested. For the pricing comparison, it depends on a number of factors to "what is cheaper" (i.e. The price of maintenance is going up next year, as we have not raised the prices for KeyShot in over 10 years. We won't commit to pricing past next year, but if you have maintenance you can remain on maintenance in 2022. If I bought KS on a Black Friday discount ($1195) the monthly price would be $46.58. For example, using the old sales model, If I bought KS at $1995 and paid $400 per year for the next 4 years, my monthly cost over 5 years would be $59.92. With a monthly rate of $99, the new subscription will be significantly more expensive. Is the subscription sales model going to be the ONLY method of keeping up with KS from 2022 onward? or will both be available? I have KS 10 with maintenance so the upgrade does not affect me, but the pricing for subscription alarmed me. Also in that email was the first pricing I have seen for the new subscription based sales model of $99/month paid annually ($1188). So I received the email offering KS 8 and 9 users to upgrade to KS10 and maintenance and they will get KS11. Quote from: aemasters on December 13, 2021, 09:12:15 AM
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