I've tried maya and 3ds max, I saw ppl using lightwave and that never really got my eye much, I was using maya at the time. After using maya for a few months, I switched to max cause I was using maya PLE and I didn't like the watermark there. So in a sence I was "forced" to use max, otherwise I wouldn't have gave it a chance. But still while using max i was graving maya, then later on I had a chance to switch back to maya, the original 3d software I started using. And I did, for about 2 days. And that was it. Max had won me to its side and maya was, from then on, a thing of the past for me.