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Just got this from pmg

 

Dear messiahStudio User:

Big changes are about to happen for messiahStudio and you. We have been working on a deal with a company
that could change the industry, and give you an advantage as a messiahStudio user. We will be able
to add more resources, improve the software, and give you a greater user experience; as well as support
your projects in interesting ways. This will also mean the future cost of the product and upgrades, may not
be solely under our control. You are being offered one chance to save on both current and future versions, before
this happens.
If you want to lock in your ability to take advantage of the current price savings, these are your last
opportunities to do so. Don't say we didn't warn you :)

MESSIAHSTUDIO 5 USERS:
Upgrade to version 6, so you are not priced out of the future:
$20 http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/shop_upgradeBF6.html
Anyone who is not on version 6 by the time this takes places, will not be able to upgrade, and will have
to pay the new prices, as if you were a new user. There will be nothing we can do to help you after that point.


MESSIAHSTUDIO 6 USERS:
If you want to lock in your future version price, avoid the price increase, and gain the advantages that
new users will have, without paying the new user price, convert to a subscription license: You can cancel it at any time, and still
run the version you have from that time forward. Your ability to run the software will not expire, only your access to new things
from that point on. If you re-subscribe after that, it will be at the new price, so it's to your advantage to maintain it.
This is the best deal we can give you as a current user; and soon you'll see why:
$40 a year: http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/shopSUB6.html


We're sorry we can't disclose any more information at this time; our plans involve other companies,
so we are not at liberty to put out new information, before the appropriate time.
Thanks for your understanding. We look forward to sharing with you what's in store for the future.

 

 

 

So is the new partner possibly pilgway ? ...... as they're a perfect match and several people on the boards have talked about it in the past

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I have a problem with this company. I purchased this software when they had an offer on a few years back but when I upgraded my MacOS to Lion (or was it Snow Leopard, I forget which) the software ceased to work. If you're running a Mac, this software doesn't work - however they'll happily sell you a copy of the software for Mac. If you download the demo for Mac, it doesn't run. Have a look at the Forum here http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/community.html

 

Maybe things will improve but I think they're less than honest in their marketing.

 

Just my two pence worth.

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Yeah, it's a pretty powerful tookit....just lousy management of the software, itself. The owner is a literal Hermit to the community. He could at least pop out of his cave a few times a year and mention what they are working on and address a few concerns/issues (like bugs, etc.). He could also create some of his own tutorials and post them on Youtube/Vimeo once in a while. But he can't be bothered with this kind of thing and resorts to snake oil sales pitches with nothing to show the user what they would be getting. I've never seen any software managed so poorly.

 

With that said, I do hope a good company takes over and handles it properly. To do so, I'd remove Fori from any business-related decisions, completely, and if he is going to be the one doing the development work, I'd insist he work in the office of the company that is taking over. It seems he has treated the software as a part time hobby the past 4-5yrs, and that is no way to run things.

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Just got this from pmg

Dear messiahStudio User:

Big changes are about to happen for messiahStudio and you. We have been working on a deal with a company

that could change the industry, and give you an advantage as a messiahStudio user. We will be able

to add more resources, improve the software, and give you a greater user experience; as well as support

your projects in interesting ways. This will also mean the future cost of the product and upgrades, may not

be solely under our control. You are being offered one chance to save on both current and future versions, before

this happens.

If you want to lock in your ability to take advantage of the current price savings, these are your last

opportunities to do so. Don't say we didn't warn you :)

MESSIAHSTUDIO 5 USERS:

Upgrade to version 6, so you are not priced out of the future:

$20 http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/shop_upgradeBF6.html

Anyone who is not on version 6 by the time this takes places, will not be able to upgrade, and will have

to pay the new prices, as if you were a new user. There will be nothing we can do to help you after that point.

MESSIAHSTUDIO 6 USERS:

If you want to lock in your future version price, avoid the price increase, and gain the advantages that

new users will have, without paying the new user price, convert to a subscription license: You can cancel it at any time, and still

run the version you have from that time forward. Your ability to run the software will not expire, only your access to new things

from that point on. If you re-subscribe after that, it will be at the new price, so it's to your advantage to maintain it.

This is the best deal we can give you as a current user; and soon you'll see why:

$40 a year:http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/shopSUB6.html

We're sorry we can't disclose any more information at this time; our plans involve other companies,

so we are not at liberty to put out new information, before the appropriate time.

Thanks for your understanding. We look forward to sharing with you what's in store for the future.

So is the new partner possibly pilgway ? ...... as they're a perfect match and several people on the boards have talked about it in the past

Hi,

No. Definitely not.

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Good they're not going into partnership.

 

Andrew and 3d Coat deserve far far better than this.

 

 

Side Effects/Houdini should buy 3d Coat...and boost up all the modeling tools for polygonal modeling the way Zbrush R4.7 does

 

Then Houdini would have a complete modeling suit (not just parametric modeling)  and Andrew's voxels would be tied in with the most incredible voxel engine there is..

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I got that email too, but I got fooled a while back on their blatant cash grab for that deal they had going a couple years ago. But despite its previous good uses, Messiah just seems like abandonware to me and this email sounds like another fishy cash grab. I've stopped using it ages ago and don't see it's benefit as it doesn't seem like any decent attention is given to the software or their service.

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After some further thought, I'm convinced this is just another used-car sales pitch (cash grab) for that failed 3D TV crowd-sourcing campaign. The e-mail mentioned this endeavor was in the works for some time. Fori is supposedly part owner of that 3D TV "company," so there is that. Then he has tried to re-fry those beans before, trying to sell current license-holders on upgrades that he wouldn't tell them what was in it or even when it was expected. Recently, he tried to sell "Subscriptions" to current license holders. The user gets nothing, but just snake-oil promises of "future savings."

 

The common denominator here is he's trying to shake down the person who has already bought into his gimmicks in the past. There is nothing to see, here, I'm afraid.

 

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I don't know why he doesn't just do the things vendors are supposed to do, to help their software grow. Innovate. Communicate. Demonstrate.

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Time, time ago... after Titanic development (LW)...

 

Fori was one of 20 founders of the visual effects company Station X Studios. Some ex Digital Domain people -the "Planet X" team-... some from Newtek

quote: They had great new visions to improve character animation in Lightwave, but NewTek wasn't very open to that. So they went to SXS to develop there dreams.

And that's where Lyle was added to the team to develop this new dream tool later known as Project Messiah.

Source

 

Fori was name president of SXS

source

 

And then SXS was acquired by Sriven

source

 

Last news

Fori and another dude are trying to kickstart this new glassless 3d monitor technology -using Messiah as base-

source

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Im thinking that the other company might be the Foundry.

They are working on a non linear animation mixer for modo 901 ....maybe they are thinking ...why bother writing one when they can just buy messiah.

Messiah was originally a tightly integrated lightwave plugin and modo is written by the guys who originally wrote Lightwave...


But then again it might be a snake oil scam knowing fori ......And the other company is actually Unity as they have it on the asset store

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