Matteo Villa wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:23 am
The reason to your question is clearly written in the end of their statement
[…]
Maxwell 5 is more than a new version, it is a new statement of intent, a new deal with our community.
With Maxwell 5 we are resuming communication in forums, producing early builds, and setting up a continuous development model to deliver minor versions regularly. We know we are behind schedule and many of you won’t be fully satisfied with the 5.0.0. Our short-term priorities are focused on perfecting multi-GPU, reduce memory footprint, and add the most in-demand features. We are maintaining upgrade prices as low as possible to ease this transition while keeping our economies sustainable. Anyway, you’ll be hearing from us.
I understand if these words are not enough for many of you who decided to go – let me say sorry one last time and thanks.
For the hundreds of users that are choosing to trust again in Maxwell, we’ll do our best to get your respect back again and have fun.
Thanks.
Victor Gonzalez
Founder / CEO
Sigh.... So what happened to Victor's apology and plea for us to trust Nextlimit again?
(Stupidly I switch my C4D plugin (which does not work on my installation of R21) to FormZ, which is a pig to use and leaves nasty shading errors all over smooth objects - so unusable unless you are rendering boxes).
Having stuck with Maxwell since the v1 pre-releases I was pissed that the plugin integrations were cut to 2 for version 4 and then again to 1 for version 5. This might have been tolerable if Studio was included with the plugin licence, given that almost all the plugins seem to have issues.
Version 4 was bad enough to warrant an insincere apology and version 5 was what? Just taking the piss asking for 495 euros for our confiscated plugins and Studio back?
It is really hard to comprehend what Victor is thinking and what his new statement of intent really meant.