Hi everyone.
Its sad this is my first post here, but I feel I have to give my opinion about something.
This is directed to the Auto Desk developers. I think feedback is important, and I think its important to tell why I´m stopping using Maya (just a regular user here).
I´ve been using Maya for years and I´ve seen some programs grow week after week (hello Blender) and Maya always been stagnated.
Do you see.... I don´t really care about constant updates. What I care is stability. To me knowing that a program will open and execute every single command I make, is very important. Thats security for work...means everything.
If you fail to delivery that, I´m done.
After a disappointing Maya 2023, I waited for Maya 2024 to decide if I would continue with Autodesk.
With Blender at the door, you could not fail. Period.
Now I updated to Maya 2024 and since then, I have luck if the program starts. I have to try 3 to 5 times for Maya to start without crashing. I even formatted my pc and mac. Same thing. 2 completely different systems.
Bullet and shatter are a bugged completely mess. I´m not talking about crashes here. I´m talking about funny bugs. Like shatter a mesh and the mesh disappearing or scale itself by 700%. In the case of Bullet.. I have luck if the animations start. It´s hit and miss. The bugs are too many to count.
Worse than that, EVERY single plugin I bough that requires Python don´t work. Read this twice and think about that for a second. Seriously. Read again!
Yes, I know that there is a method to install and bla bla bla. You know what? I´m not a programmer. I don´t care about coding. Thats YOUR JOB.
But I tried to do your job, and ran the command lines to install python and even had a message saying that python installed successfully. I even opened the script editor and wrote the last command line to import one thing to finish the installation of python (I guess????). And the plugins I bought still don´t work. Multiple errors that I don´t understand and frankly don´t even care. I used the plugins that I paid with my own money in huge works and now I can´t even open the projects. Do you understand the problem?
I´m a senior modeler. Expecting people that buy your program to resolve problems like this is just dumb.
It´s like buying a car and then receiving a email from the manufacter saying "to have electricity in your car, all you have to do, is buying a welding machine and start messing with dozens of cables.
I also know, that you don´t directly support the python team or something like that. You know what? With the other programs growing I feel that you guys should support everything to save Maya. Above all, you should care about your costumer. Basically all I´m saying is that you left me without hand.
Thays my point of view. Thank you for reading this text. Good luck for the future and get your shªt together. Maya should have a lot of people working in the program. I mean A LOT. One team just for solving bugs, other for upgrades and so on.
Thank you once again.
