Honestly, as far as the pricing goes, most of you will get your money back with the first project. So i don't think pros should be complaining.
There are some questions about hobby/personal license. I don't think i've ever heard of this. But as we're debating things in this thread, how do you think this could possibly work? Honest question.
How could Corona team know what the hell is personal license being used for?
It could send every render back home?
It could watermark every image, but it would have to be somewhere in the middle so that it can't be cropped out, how could you use that in a portfolio?
Or one should give Corona team access to PC via TeamViewer :D
As long as mental ray is being shipped with max there is no way boss man will cash out for Corona, even if it was half the price, he'd be happy with scanline. Hell, he'd be happy with nitrous viewport :D I've been using it just for my personal project, if you can call it so since it's not finished and by the looks of it i'll be happy to finish it by the end of the year :D (Quite simple, but time is always short)
Until i actually decide to go freelance or open my own studio, there is no rational justification for buying Corona, so personal license would be great, but honestly - i don't see it happening.
Some more question:
- Blender? Pricing, licensing, integration? Mainly in light of recent Autodesk subscription announcement. Max is nothing special, no reason not to switch to Blender, if Corona would work properly with it.
- Alpha bug reporters, discount? wink wink :D