I have retained both a perpetual C4D R20, and will of course have the latest ZBrush regardless. Thereafter, it would renew at the full cost. You’d simply be taking out a subs either for ZBrush in isolation or the full Maxon One suite, but at a discount of 50% for the first 12 months. You will still retain your perpetual license for ZBrush - final version available to you is 2022.5. Having received the same email, I contacted Maxon support for clarification. To continue with the car analogy, everyone’s mileage varies. This is what’s stopping me using C4D not subscriptions. It’s like a hypercar with a detuned 2 stroke engine. C4D could be a wonderful application if it had anything close to the performance of Houdini or even Blender but it doesn’t and there doesn’t seem to be any light at the end of that particular tunnel. Personally, I simply could not co back to navigating production scenes at < 1 fps ever again and the thought of dealing with that again is anxiety inducing. I concluded some years ago that Maxon was not providing good value for money with the upgrades and I continue to believe that as since C4D remains largely the same poorly performing application it has been for the last decade just with a few more inconsequential bells and whistles.

People should really focus on value for money and whether your subscription or annual upgrade represents good value for money or not. The dam has burst and subscriptions are a thing nowadays and we just have to live with it. I’ve long reconciled my hate of subscription software and will use it if necessary though I have yet to find any subscription software that can’t be replaced with perpetual licensed software or open source equivalents.

Maxon, to my knowledge, has never earned so much money as in recent years so clearly the overwhelming users base disagrees or if they do they continue to sign up regardless. Working online with rent software is not my way. I like to buy my software and work offline for unlimited time.

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