I will stop investing time in Substance Painter/Designer and revise my pipeline (once again) in order to only work with software of companies I trust (and that is no-one basically). This whole shlamazzle only points into one direction in my opinion. I for me have spend my last 60 dollars on code. No 3D Coat, no Quixel, no Marie and no ZBrush for me thank you verry much even Microsoft will have to go sooner or later in favour of a Linux computer.
I invested time and money in David 3d scanning software: eaten by HP and basically gone.
I invested time and money in Kolor: eaten by GoPro and well and truly gone
I invested time and money in Allegorithmic: eaten by Adobe and well I don't do Adobe.....
so who is next to disappoint me.....
From now on it's open source or no source.....Linux, Blender, Krita, Gimp and Inkscape will be in my toolkit and together I can get to the same results as I do using the Substance Suite, not as confortable, not a s fast, but the endresult will be more or less the same.
I was proud to use Allegorithmic because it was made by an independant software company
I was proud to use Allegorithmic because it was used by all the major studios.
I was proud to use Allegorithmic because it was made in Europe
I was proud to use Allegorithmic because it was made in France a country I know
I was proud to use Allegorithmic because it was made in Clermond Ferrand a city I know
All that changed in one mail....and yes I know you are still in Clermond, but THAT IS NOT THE POINT!
I whiched I could say Au Revoir but this is an Adieu!