After speaking with support, I was told the only possible way to get access to Source was through either the monthly to annual subscription methods (where you would have to purchase licenses to the main software packages - you cant just get Source by itself). Odd, I can't seem to find anywhere where I can purchase monthly downloads for it. The software is great, but I decided I might like access to Substance Source to help me get better base materials to work with. Painter cost me 150USD, and B2Mcost me 100USD, totalling 250USD. So, I went ahead and purchased a perpetual license for the 2 packages (Painter and B2M) and called it good. In my case, I was really only interested in Painter and B2M, and on top of that, this is software I am not even going to be using every week, or every month even (I am usually programming, but I do a lot of 3D work as well as a secondary skillset), so by default I obviously was not looking for a subscription of any kind since I didn't want to be paying for something every month that I didn't use every month. To me, whatever the reason they are offered, it is borderline predatory practice and doesn't sit right with me at all. There is literally no reason to buy perpetual licenses because you can convert the annual subscription package (which includes more software and access to Source) to perpetual licenses at any time. I'm not sure why perpetual licenses are offered, unless they are just a trap to overcharge customers for less software? Or, perhaps, it's just for them to be able to say they sell perpetual licenses in an era when many large software companies are moving to the less popular subscription method only when they clearly don't want you to buy them? The bottom line is, if you buy perpetual licenses you will get access to less software and it will cost you more money. This will be referring to prices for the Indie licenses, but it looks like a similar pattern was used for all offering levels. When I was purchasing my licenses recently, it was kind of unclear what you got for all the packages (maybe I'm just stupid), but I wanted to make sure anyone else thinking about purchasing any substance software knew all the differences between the offered packages.
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