There are more Octane users, who own a Student License, bought/upgraded their PC with a Nvidia 9xx graphics card without knowing that from that point on, their Octane Render will be useless.
I am one of them. In October, I built a new PC, with two GTX 980, and after installing everything, I discovered that I couldn't use my Octane. It was a huge disappointment, but, at the same time, it was my fault for not reading before buying. I got used to using only Blender, but I really loved Octane Render and the plug-in for Blender was brilliant as well. I really want them back.
Can't we make a deal for upgrading Student License versions to 1.5x versions? ( for example: Student Licensed users can pay a reasonable amount of money to upgrade to 1.5x )
I really miss using Octane Render, but I can't afford buying a full price product.