I don't think the pricing policy is justified either. It would be fair to say let's take a look at it and not immediately come up with counterarguments. Unfortunately, that's just wishful thinking, because that's not how companies that have to be profitable work.
I'm glad that we have one of the old licenses (even though automatic renewal wasn't activated during the changeover, I saw that in time and changed it..)
If that weren't the case, we would also consider looking for alternatives (Octane costs €19.99 per month and even has 10+ render node licenses)
We have a price increase from back then
2 x FairSaaS (old license) = €699.98 incl. VAT
on today
2 x Premium license with 2x 5 render nodes = €996.74 incl. VAT
which means a price increase of 42.4%.
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If we had canceled corona and had to pay extra for our 4 render nodes, we would be with
yearly
2 x Premium = 1082.42 including VAT
https://corona-renderer.com/pricing4 x Solo Nodes = €628.32 incl. VAT
https://corona-renderer.com/prices-licensing/render-nodesTotal costs €1710,74 annually including VAT
If you now compare the old Fairsass license of € 699.98 from 2020/2021 and 2022 to € 1710,74, that is a price increase of 144,4% within 2 years
But as I said, we are happy to still have the old license ;)
I still dream that corona and vray will combine their synergies and become “CORAY" THE only ultimate render engine you need - But that's another topic :)