It definitely reinforces the idea that you don't own your copy of Autodesk software, considering the longest term you can subscribe for is 3 years. My understanding is that moving forward (after a specific date that I can't remember, 2016?) your only option for purchase will be Desktop Subscription. Purchase the maintenance subscription and upgrade annually if they wanted. Users, however, still had the choice to buy a software and have it forever. If you only needed autocad for 3 months, you could pay the +/- $700 instead of the full price of the software for +/-$4500. Then they started selling the Desktop Subscription which allows you to purchase a limited term license for any software they were offering.

Also meant to keep existing users upgrading to the newer versions for compatibility and revenue growth. Then they started selling the annual subscription service which entitled you to cool gadgets plus an upgrade to next years release. If you didn't want to buy the next version, no problem.Īt some point they went from randomly scheduled new releases of the software to annual releases. You received all updates to the software for that version. Not sure I understand the question Eugene, but this is the way I understand the situation.Īutodesk used to sell you a software that when you bought it you owned a licensed copy of it.

3ds max subscription cost