@rm wrote:
The logic for posting elsewhere, ie LinkedIn, potential new ArchiCAD clients are likely to be reading about the competition as well. The last thing GS needs right now, giving they recently ousted Huw Roberts, is a sentiment that GS is not listening to its loyal long term clients.
But a bigger picture point, how can they continue with year over year increases of over 20% for SSA members when that exceeds cost of living increases 3-5x depending on your location. That to me is one of the most important issue here.
Methinks it's hard to maintain that facade when the every people they've long-relied on to perpetuate the perception that they do listen,...(i.e. those same long-term loyal customers), -.,.....through word-of-mouth and direct contact with industry colleagues - are the same ones they're busy giving the short shrift to right now with this episode.
With regards to your second point, I believe others deduced that the whole reasoning behind that would be to (eventually) force SSA folks into switching over to subscription of their own volition eventually.
Basically a de facto forced subscription without them having to actually do the forcing directly.
But with year-over-year 20+% increases on SSA fees, aren't they still going to be de facto "forcing" people to subscription, anyway.
I'm not really sure I'm aware of any small-to-medium firms that can sustain that sort of annual cost increase on any of their line expenditure items on a yearly basis over a long-term.
Still looking?
