Why is every top voted wishlist item worth having "on hold"

[Kalib Stewart]

Simple question, was having a browse, and with Archicad 30 being the last perpetual version, and with it being such a critical release for upgrades when it comes to retaining customers who are now exploring other BIM solutions, why is everything the user base actually wants on hold and not coming soon?

The entire first page of the top-voted wishlist has been lazily placed on hold. We haven't had a meaningful upgrade since Archicad's 27 design options; hoping by Oct/Nov's release, that the 'coming soon' list doubles, and it actually includes any of the top-rated wishes as opposed to this AI beta junk I've yet to see a single user actually successfully use, and a couple of new label shapes and witness line flexibility, lol.

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Tahoe 26

[Kamil Dylo]

I guess the answer is: Graphisof has no intention to implement those wishes. Why do they have no intention to implement those wishes? I guess it has more to do with Archicad being an old legacy system that is not that easy to upgrade anymore than simply not wanting to make the software better. At least they are honest with us. Don't expect that Archicad will be better.

We should really start exploring other BIM solutions. The problem is that the other BIM solutions suck as well.

[Bricklyne Clarence]

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@Kalib Stewart wrote:

Simple question, was having a browse, and with Archicad 30 being the last perpetual version, and with it being such a critical release for upgrades when it comes to retaining customers who are now exploring other BIM solutions, why is everything the user base actually wants on hold and not coming soon?

The entire first page of the top-voted wishlist has been lazily placed on hold. We haven't had a meaningful upgrade since Archicad's 27 design options; hoping by Oct/Nov's release, that the 'coming soon' list doubles, and it actually includes any of the top-rated wishes as opposed to this AI beta junk I've yet to see a single user actually successfully use, and a couple of new label shapes and witness line flexibility, lol.

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Tahoe 26

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It's crazy isn't it?

I discovered this was the case when I got notification that one of the wishes I had posted a while back (......back when the Wishlist section used to be open to more than just Subscribers only, and any user - including perpetual license holders - could actually post wishes, vote on them, and comment on posted wishes. The fact that they made it exclusive to subscribers-only should have been a warning sign), had been placed 'On Hold' (it is the wish to have multi-monitor capability in Archicad).

I was puzzled as to why I was being notified on this, when I'm not even allowed to comment on that section anymore, but at least they gave something of an explanation why.
(Forget the fact that it was a nonsensical explanation that made no sense when you actually broke it down, and if anything it was really more damning on GS, if anything, that they were resorting to doing this).

It was at that point I decided to do a quick search to see what else had been placed on hold (to try to confirm a different suspicion I had about their development direction), and lo and behold, imagine my shock (....okay, not really) to find that most of the highly voted wishes had gradually been placed all 'On Hold'.

I mean,....what even is the game they're playing here?

You tell users that you're revamping the Wishlist section to trim it down and streamline it so they can actually focus on the most highly requested wishes, and in so doing cull the lesser voted on wishes and archive those.
And then they suspiciously make it exclusive to just only Subscription customers,  .....and then resort to pulling this nonsense, after assuring us that the whole point was that they were finally getting down to addressing the long-standing issues in the program.

The obvious reality here is that they were never serious about doing so in the first place and all this was just window dressing and lip service.

Same as the Public Roadmap.
See what a joke that has become.
Suddenly items are appearing there that had never been requested as features to be improved or included - and some of them even, only appearing after they were called out on why they're spending development resources on items people specifically DIDN'T request (I'm talking of course about the AI tools and features which magically appeared on the roadmap when it's obvious no one had ever requested them before.

These are the sort of games and nonsensical PR movies that make your customers stop trusting you, Graphisoft, and which make you lose all the goodwill you've built up over literal decades with longstanding loyal customers.
....assuming you even still care about things like that.

As it currently stands, the Wishlist Section and the Public Roadmap are nothing more than Window dressing and PR marketing fluff with no real meaning behind them.
(I say, "Public" because it's obvious they have an internal Roadmap they follow which actually matters to them, and which in all likelihood, the rest of us will never see in the light of day.)

So, potential new users be aware.
I'd add that people opting to make the switch to Subscription should be too, but if you're doing that, then chances are you already know what you're getting yourself into, and have made your peace with what your future will look like.