Our needs are simple and we absolutely do not require a $400/year subscription.. Yet for 20 minutes clicking back and forth on the store site, I cant seem to find any option to purchase a basic copy of Autocad LT..
Have you really moved everything over to a non-option subscription service?
thanks,
Brett
yea they made that move over 2 years ago
they only sell subscription licenses where you need to keep paying or the software goes dead
they have a forum dedicated to this new business model: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/moving-to-subscription/bd-p/2017
DarrenP
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Wow. Ridiculous. Well, there's no way that's going to happen. Off to the competitors I suppose.
Everything is going to subscription, I don't know many companies who still are on perpetual, it's annoying I know as now it's industry standard, but they have 20% off at the moment...
I am in the same dilemma. Work from home, very small business & can't afford this subscription price.
This has put me, a few friends and one family member out of business. After over 20 years working with this software, I've decided to look for different type of work.
How? Why? Trust me, I'm not defending the actions of Autodesk, but all businesses have a cost of doing business. Are your customers requiring you by contract to use Autodesk software? If so, then any competitor of yours would be under those same requirements at the same cost to them. If not, there are less costly applications that can read/write DWG files.
More specific to you, the rental option sounds like it's a better option since you would only pay for the time you are using it.
@deamag - To continue your last thought. This is what Autodesk has brought to the table. It's up to each customer to decide if this is the right solution for him/herself. Autodesk's CEO himself has said "If you don't see value in subscription, you should probably find another software solution" [¹].
Accepting the new terms, abandoning ship, or legal action are probably the only available choices. Autodesk pays their people a lot money to come up with these business plans that will survive and keep the shareholders happy. So far, it seems to be working OK. You can look that up yourself.
Cheers and have a good weekend.
As of today, 9 Aug 21, the cost of a 3 year licence is 4,795 usd.
I am in the UK and, again today, the exchange rate is 1.39usd to £1 sterling.
So you would assume a 3 year licence in the UK would be around £3,450.
In fact it is £5,364!
How is that acceptable and reasonable?
It’s called a monopoly on an international level. Yet none of our governments will come to help their workers.
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