@March_ Bruce wrote:
As a reminder in ArchiCAD 27 was the AI Visualizer initially introduced as a plug in feature upgrade for perpetual ArchiCAD customers ?
https://adwire.ca/graphisoft-unveils-ai-powered-visualizer-for-archicad/
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The AI Visaulizer when it was first introduced was available to everyone - even when run through the cloud rather than locally, via downloading the 20GB version.
Initiallly they tried to limit it to only subscription users (or laid out plans to do so in the future), but then briefly eversed that decision when they got pushback, only to now reverse it again.
So the claim that they're limited in the implementation these new technologies (Specifically AI Assistant and Visualizer) that they're introducing to have them be exclusive to only subscription-users, based on how they're implemented onthe backend simply doesn't fly.
As noted and pointed out above by myself and several others, this is a CHOICE by Graphisoft. Not something they've been forced into by technological implementations or whatever they're trying to claim. And to really nail down to it, a marketing related choice.
It's part of a strategy or marketing approach to try and coax (or more pointedly, push) any unwilling perpetual license users into subscription licensing before it becomes mandotary a couple of years from now (And anticipating a good chunk of those perpetual license holders will jump ship then or opt not to switch to subscription as many are now stating they won't) and the only licensing option available , and frankly speaking from a PR perspective it's a slimy move from them given that they know how unpopular this whole strategy and decision is, and how they've handled the whole affair.
It's time people just started calling them out for these things they're doing instead of gently playing footsie with them or around these issues hoping to maintain some sense of professional comity.
And Csillag's background is Engineering, if I'm not mistaken, so that should inform a lot on the direction this program has been taking over the last several versions.*
It's been noted several times that it doesn't seem like many involved in the development these days are actually involved in architecture, or familiar with how architects and designers actually work (the day-to-day nuts and bolts of how we need to get things done),.......at least not anymore.
Some times it helps looking at the top from whence the change in the direction of the prevaliing winds are flowing.
Sorry to be so blunt about all this.
And the funny thing about all this is I'm not even the biggest fan of this whole "AI-(anything)" direction we all seem to be headed down these days (at least no in the way Graphisoft are approaching it in architectural development compare to the likes of Finch or Architectures).
It's just that it's become emblematic of how things are going wrong and continue to go wrong.
(*And by the way, this isn't even to say Huw Roberts' tenure was any sparkling model of excellence in comparison. It's just that this....."rot"....or whatever is regressiing development in this software and this company has been ongoing for a while now, and it seems regardless of who gets put in charge, nothing will likely change that momentum.
With Csillag, I feel they have more "truth in advertising" if you may, in terms of how their long-term strategy aligns with how they seem to be handling it right now and what their vision is)
