Maxon Reviews

Maxon sucks so bad

I was a fan of Red Giant for many years and I still think their plugins are amazing - unfortunately they were bought out by Maxon a company whose main goal seems to be making their products as inaccessible and buggy as possible while constantly jacking up prices I was in contact with Maxon and their auto-reply bots for weeks trying to figure out why my student discount code wouldn t work It took so long that my discount code expired and I had to get a new one through Kivuto just so that I could continue talking to Maxon about the issue I followed all of their activation directions multiple times even sending screen shots and screen recordings when prompted In the end it was a massive waste of time and they told me I couldn t use a student discount code because I had bought one of their products in the past I cannot for the life of me understand why a previous purchase-made before I even started college-disqualifies me as a student now I am literally writing this review from my college campus Regardless their excuse makes no sense because I have successfully redeemed student discount codes with Maxon several times over the last 2 years all of which were redeemed without issue AFTER the disqualifying purchase they were referencing TL DR Maxon is pure evil RIP Red Giant

Maxon One is a total disaster

Maxon One is a total disaster Nothing but errors and headaches Be warned Louzy customer service They aren t allowed to come with a good solution All they do is offer to try to fix the errors but the problem is way bigger than that and they know it

Subscription model fail

As they have moved from proper licences to renting out their software I will no longer be using Maxon s products

Maxon Student License Scam

They stole my money by Student License deception A month ago I got a reply that says we reactivating your license after providing documents and after that nothing at all No license no reply Maxon is just a scam

Their student license is a SCAM

Their student license is a SCAM They charge you 20 for just kick you out right away with no justification at all No support is given by them just an auto reply They keep the money alleging administration fees

Will look for alternatives to Red Giant

Any company that bundles the product you need with a load of extras you don t and then charges a SUBSCRIPTION for their irritating bloat needs to f off into the night

like many

like many I am also in the camp of red giant plugins being unusable on perpetual license still the software shows as unlicensed with watermark the new maxon app is barely functional and does not offer any option other to funnel you towards upgrading I also have a cinema4d 21 and zbrush 22 perpetual licenses and as far as I am concerned these are the last versions will not give this scum company a single cent rather go back to autodesk which is saying something mcgavran ruined the company I am pretty sure go with blender davinci and other alternatives this company is garbage and not to be trusted just check out reddit for the redshift and redgiant issues nothing like being on a deadline with sudden licensing issues and slow support

Bad work practices

Bad work practices They randomly cancelled all active student licenses after people paid to activate them payment which other software companies don t even require for the same kind of services without giving any reasoning or warning I can t imagine what would ve happened if I had tight school deadlines for assignments during that period Scam software company that buys software and makes it worse

I was a Red Giant very happy customer

I was a Red Giant very happy customer they were bought by Maxon and everything went down the toilet terrible user experience forced to buy the entire suite of apps when I only needed a few and lastly continuing to charge for Universe even after the account was closed STAY AWAY from them