I agree that probably the future for rendering is in the cloud and I already hate it.
When I tried to figure out Octane's new subscription model (most ridiculous scheme ever) I had to split myself into a laughing and a crying part and am not entirely sure about fully recovering because exactly this ridiculousness seems to be the direction everyone is heading to...
I agree. I just went over to the Octane website. What a complicated load of nonsense. And to top it off, they are actually introducing an option for a dongle - can you believe it ? In 2019 ? A dongle ? Maybe they should also issue the software on floppies.
The original owners did a much better job on that software than Otoy.