The subscription is for 12 months only and starts 30 days after you sign the agreement. I would post my agreement here but it has some confidential information on it don't want to bother blocking out unless someone really wants to see it.
My point about the value of the promo items is that they are probably not much value to experienced users. I think that is most of us. May be not. I don't know.
If you have been using ArchiCAD for 5 years or so, when was the last time you needed priority tech support? Have you used it at all after the first year?
There are only a very few things an experienced users will pick up from the Virtual Tutor.
How often will you need the features the 3D profiler has which are better than the one we already have?
How much value is waving the replacement key fee if you don't lose your key?
The value of these things is subjective and would probably cost Graphisoft almost nothing if they gave it away free to any user who wants it.
You are correct, I am sure that up until now no one has paid full price for a damaged or stolen key. However, what makes me think things may be different in the future is the fact that Key insurance is even offered at all. Now that you have to buy key insurance, how much will it cost to replace a key if you didn't buy the insurance? Still $100.00?
If the cost of key insurance is the same as the replacement fee, what is the insurance for? Will we have to by the insurance each year too?
If you could get 10 and 11 in one subscription period you could cancel your subscription until 12 comes out. This could easily be 18 months or more after 11. Why pay for two more subscriptions during that time? more goodies? $1400 dollars worth?
Those who subscribed in June of 2005 will not get an upgrade until February or March of 2006. Their subscription runs out about three months later. Is 11 going to be out then? No way. If they want to get 11 at less than the future upgrade cost they will have to subscribe again. Will they subscribe again before 11 comes out? No! Why would they? The extra goodies?
The ones who got the worst deal are those who are subscribing after the $200.00 discount on 10 expired in October. I think they will get some goodies but their subscription will undoubtedly run out before they get 11. They will spend $1400 dollars to get 11 instead of $700 like those who wait to subscribe until 10 is here may be able to do.
For this reason I don't think there is any chance 11 will come out before all of the subscriptions that will get you 10 have expired. That would be around February or March of 2007. We will see.
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