Hello, Autodesk's support has failed me so I am reaching out here to see if anyone can be more helpful than they were, which is not at all.

I am a student and I started using 3dsmax with the 2014 version, as that was what my school was using. Later on, as the school's licenses expired, we were made to create a personal student account and got a 2016 license key, as that is what the school installed.
I did not appreciate this at all. From my point of view and the extent of my usage, nothing in the program really improved in two years and all it did was force us all to update to a new version both at school and at home, for no reason whatsoever. There is no logical reason to prevent people from using older versions as long as they have any license.

So the reason for this post is, my 2016 student license expires in 3 days. And, according to their website and their support, there is no way to renew a license for versions prior to 2017. This is extremely bothersome for the reasons stated above.
I am not interested in hearing the benefits of updating. I simply want to know if there's actually some way to renew my 2016 license, or a way to bypass the license check alltogether and simply launch the software so I can keep working on my current project without issues. If there's no answer, I guess it'll be time to leave this software and its shitty company practices behind.
Sorry if this is not the place to ask about this. Thanks for any help in advance.