Hehe. My first softimage was 37,000 UK pounds. That's around 75,000 US. And
the hardwares doubled it. My total investment was close to 75,000 UK pounds.
You guys don't know you're born.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Ing. Marek Mihok
> Sent: 02 August 2005 07:36
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: XSI v5.0
>
> Joel,
>
> $400 is SUPER FREE OF CHARGE for such amazing soft...........
>
> I can't hear about all those rants that we want free
> upgrades, it's expensive, I am poor student etc etc etc etc etc...
>
> I am sick of it.............
>
> for my first Softimage 3.8 I had to took LOAN (I was student
> then) to pay something like $16.000 for 4 years
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> and it was in Slovakia, compare economy to US or UK and cost
> of animation here is fraction of cost over there...............
>
> and now somebody is trying to tell me that $400 is TOO MUCH ?
> not long ago I had to upgare for another 4.000 euros...............
>
> so even now price for essentials is super low comapre to what
> I had to pay........ and it were hard years to pay all bills + loan...
>
> end of rant because I am sick of people who wants EVERYTHING
> FOR FREE...
>
> Marek
>
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> Juzna Trieda 9
> 040 01 Kosice
> SLOVAKIA
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> animax3d(at)animax3d.sk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Joel Blackwell
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 7:45 AM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: XSI v5.0
>
>
> I'd pay about $250, but I won't be paying $400. I mean, I'm
> still waiting for the bugs in 4.2 to be fixed. Now I know
> it'll cost me another copy of Foundation (by the time I can
> afford it) to see a whole host of new ones. I don't know
> about you, but that doesn't exactly make me want to *jump* at
> the chance of buying into XSI again. Call me a whiner if you
> like, but that's how I see it.
>
> By saying this, I realise I'm retaining my status as the most
> hated person on this list :)
>
> -Joel
>
>
> Bernard Lebel wrote:
> > So how much would you be willing to pay for that upgrade? Seriously.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/1/05, Peter S <layer01(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>hmmm i dont know i think $395 for Fnd upgrade is a little harsh. i
> >>mean it is the "budget" version....thus most people who
> have it are on
> >>a....budget *shock* lol and fact that its the promo price is even
> >>worse imo, cause i assume that means that there is no upgrade price
> >>after the promo ends, and you just buy Fnd again!
> >>seems a bit unfair, seeing as i know myself i cant afford the Promo
> >>upgrade within its time frame...and to pay the full Fnd
> price again is
> >>not going to be an easy choice to make...bummer.
> >>my only hope atm is that the word "upgrade" is being
> loosely used by
> >>soft and they just mean "upgrade" from another app (maya
> *cough*) to
> >>XSI 5.....well...its all i got atm lol.
> >>
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