Larian Studios Forums General Chat Have to vent...

So, I'm taking a programming course, and some time ago I came across this book, called "3D Game Animation for Dummies".

Recently, I thought "hey, I'd love to give that a go", so I started reading the book.

After a few chapters the book gets into the practical application, and they tell you to download a program called Maya Personal Learning Edition. Every exercise in the whole book is based on working with Maya Personal Learning Edition.

Well, so I start the process indicated to install Maya Personal Learning Edition... And I find out that Autodesk, the company that is responsible for Maya, chose to discontinue the Personal Learning Edition, preventing anyone, even people that actually paid money to learn to work with this free program, from being able to use it... so I basically threw away my money on that book.

I spend hours on the Autodesk site trying to find a way to e-mail them. None. Only for piracy matters, and even that only by giving them a ton of personal information that I do not share on the internet.

So I go to the Dummies site, to send them an e-mail. Same thing happens.

Why do they do this?


Does this make me want to spend €3000+ on Maya Unlimited? No.
Does this make me want to pirate Maya without feeling even a little bit guilty? Yes.
Oh, piracy is illegal? So is bashing your head open, but piracy is less aggressive.

Fuck you, big companies. You're what's wrong with the world.