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New update https://support.maxon.net/hc/en-us/articles/8658038724124-Cinema-4D-2024-0-1-September-20-2023

One of the threads I read the response from Maxon was students needed to give A lot of proof about their school and particular studies/courses. I guess they don’t want any and every student in college or high school to get their hands on C4d. It used to be simple to prove you were a student… now you are more scrutinized by Maxon. All other companies like Apple, Microsoft, google, Autodesk,catia, foundry and more do not require this for student access. Blender is gonna keep getting more and more users because Maxon likes money.

After my students told me about this issue I checked and discovered this is going on for at least two weeks. So it's not a temporary thing. Two weeks is a lot of time academically - our semesters are only 15 weeks (and some Universities have 10 or 8 weeks terms). And let me clarify that our lab copies of Maxon software are working fine (Zbrush still working, etc...), the problem is with the licenses that students used at home on their own computers. At reddit there are threads at Cinema4D and Redshift subs about the issue. As you can read there, I'm not the only professor/instructor really pissed with Maxon about this issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinema4D/comments/16fqrok/maxon_bring_back_the_student_licenses/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RedshiftRenderer/comments/16fuy6q/student_license/ My school did reached out to Maxon. What was the answer? They just repeated what was on the page I posted and said he cannot give us a date of when the student licenses will be available again. Yeah, I will keep my affirmation that Maxon is shooting themselves in the foot. First scrapping the cheap versions of Cinema4D (Prime and Bodypaint), then refusing to have a cheap indie version (when even the "Evil" Autodesk has indie versions for Maya and Max) then charging for student licenses, And now this? Maxon's attitude makes no sense in a world where Blender is free for everyone and Maya/Max are free for students (then cheap for indies ater graduation). What is going on @DMcGavran?

Was looking at the updates today, very useful and informative.

Also please use bigger and more images for those who don't have C4D yet or just want to read and not open the attached files.