Comments on: Autodesk: all of our products will soon go online

By: Peter H.

Peter H. — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:43:47 +0000

cloud is like communism

By: cookieMunch

cookieMunch — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:20:13 +0000

This cannot work unless we’ll become like Borg collective. I simply refuse to buy any software or game which forces me to work or play online.

By: kreater

kreater — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:04:38 +0000

Carl Bass, this is a horrible idea! That means if your users are in the middle of a production pinch and the studio internet access goes down (I’ve seen it happen on project deliveries), the entire production comes to a grinding holt! That’s not reliability!
What about areas of production that is computationally based such as rendering, fluids sims, caching, on a huge farm?
I’m a supervisor for a major studio and I can already tell you we will switch to different applications’S because it’s too high risk.

I remember back in the mid 90′s there was talk about putting all of their applications on PCI memory card.
I don’t know what idea is worse!!!

By: meat puppet

meat puppet — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:34:47 +0000

blender here I come!

By: Al

Al — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:56:12 +0000

Plug up the pipes even more and risk compromising ones security. At this rate i have to have one PC for the software with internet and one for my personal data with no internet or simply stop using there software. They can sod off.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:35:22 +0000

And what if someone wants to work in an isolated island for a couple weeks or so with no internet access?

By: Rey

Rey — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:35:15 +0000

I don’t see this being successful for packages like Maya / SoftImage / 3DMax and VFX composting packages. There are film & game studios that purposely don’t have their computers connected to the web due to viruses and to protect their intellectual properties from hackers. Even if you have a top notch internet connection, your still going to have lag. Imagine a school lab with 100+ computers running Maya at the same time, how laggy it would be just to extrude a polygon face.

By: Ark

Ark — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:30:45 +0000

I think you got it wrong… this has nothing to do with pirates, the hole market is going that way, and it’s only a stronger way for them to monetize their products. And since when you “buy” a license now you are in fact paying to be allowed to “use” it, you will not own anything anymore, no internet ? well you just can’t work anymore… sweet isn’t it ?

By: Meat puppet

Meat puppet — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:59:09 +0000

I’ve been saying it for YEARS! this is where it’s heading Thanks a lot FU@*ING Pirates!!!

By: Movtec

Movtec — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:58:41 +0000

I think it’s a good move for a company but If you start thinking about the data traffic that this move will generate – think about it – hundred of thousands of users, “average file size” – which could be few Mb to Few hundreds Mb + textures or any other files needed.