3ds Max

After read and watch more and more tutorials I realased that a lot of 3D designers were using 3ds Max.
I search information about it through the net. 3ds Max it's a software provide powerful, integrated 3D, modelinng, animation, rendering, and compositing tools that enable artists and designers to more quickly ramp up for production.The two versions share core technology and features, but offer differentiated experiences and specialized toolsets for game developers, visual effects artists, and graphic designers on the one hand, and architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists on the other. It's from the gamma of Autodesk®.

One thing that draw my attention was that it isn't free. In the official webside of Autodesk, 3ds Max costs about US$3,49. Wow! How can a simple product cost so much? It was my question, and I'm looking for it!
Actually I'm using it and I tell you my own opinions and comments.

                                By now, I can say that it's very similar to Blender

                                The rendering it's faster than Blender.

When you are going to create objects, in 3ds Max there are more primitive objects (standart primitives, extended primitives, compount objects, particle simple, dynamics objects, etc. and in each head there are the objects as well)