Hello Friend's

I am someone who has been working with 3DS max for about 3 year's mainly through high school.

I will say this and i have said it too many time's i love the speed and workflow in max and i don't want to leave it, however the price tag/($3,500) is not exactly doable at this time.

I need something commercial and more friendly to my young wallet, i was using blender however the time difference to model something in blender and the extra steps needed to do the job vs what it would take in max make's me feel like i might be able to achieve better in something else close to max in a sense of ease of modeling with a more comfortable price tag.

So to clarify this do you think Modo the $1495 package is a good choice from someone like me with a good 3ds max background i am sure there are artist here with many year's more experience than i do and are lurking around being as great as you are so please you'r advice will be much appreciated, and also what are something's modo's does better than max and what are some of the thing's of which you like and find other programs similar cannot achieve.

Thank you ,looking forward to some great replies.

Well 3Ddreamer thanks for you reply however im considering blender or Modo at this point and thanks too Serapth maybe i should still keep using blender and just to add to this i am not only going to use the 3D app for game development in unity but also in 3ds max i did architectural visualization and still do none commercial as a way to build up a client base .