Anyone getting these kind of crap from their VAR (in my case they still have me noted), trying extract money from users who have not upgraded in 3 years.
(Attached SOLIDWORKS Business Model Changes Coming in July 2023.doc from VAR)
I was just about choking on my coffee as I read it thru. <()>
It perfectly shows up everything that is wrong with SnotWorks (Heath Robinson Business) LLC and there whole corporate attitude to customers.
Personally I think this is basically bordering on extortion and am so glad I do not have to stay on the treadmill.
I just going now to wash the taste of sick out of my mouth. >>> SOLIDWORKS Business Model Changes Coming in July 2023.doc (30.5 KB)
I saw that too. Part of it says “New subscription and term licenses of SOLIDWORKS Desktop CAD products, but not the rest of the desktop portfolio (PDM, Simulation, Composer, etc.), will experience an uplift in price. This uplift in price is still a fraction of the cost of the additional value that was mentioned above and will secure the necessary investments in the quality products you have come to expect and the state-of-the-art Cloud infrastructure.”
Any “uplift” in price is not justified if I will get zero value from access to the Experience thing. So users will be forced to pay extra for something they don’t want.
And not to forget, to boost up the number of paying participants in the 3DExperience cloud infrastructure. So far, only less then 3 percent of SolidWorks users actually use the 3DExperience cloud version, including all DS employees and students and hobbyists. And I think 2 percent have left the 3DExperience already. On the other hand over 1 million desktop versions are under subscription. This is not the result GPB has predicted, so the number has to go up.
we have to pay for things we haven’t gotten or used (if you go of subscription but after a few years want to update)
we have to pay for things that we might not benefit from but will be introduced the next few years (having to pay for a minimum amount of subscription years)
we have to pay for things that we have no intention of using (cloud)
hmm…
do we see a trend ?
Can anyone explain to me what exactly we are getting for all that money that we send them year after year because the things I do in Solidworks still need work-arounds, still aren’t stable, still make me work how Solidworks dictates instead of it doing what is common in the industry
Heck I problem of a very core thing in a certain module that I notified them of over a decade ago may perhaps be solved in 2023, but your guess is as good as mine for how long because it had be solved a few years ago, and a couple of months before that and and a couple of years before that
Doesn’t the word ‘new’ here mean that existing users with subscriptions would not see a price bump? Essentially, new users or users who went off subscription and come back on will pay more but for anyone current it is the same old same old?
This all sounds bad, and I am ready to be upset over it. But to be honest, I’m not exactly sure what it all means. I am going to leave my pitchfork in the closet until I get communication from my VAR that specifically outlines pricing / policy changes that affect me.
It appears that new licenses are seeing the increase. Not just new customers. So if we want to add a few seats those will be at higher cost.
I speculate that it’s just a matter of time before maint prices take a hike for similar reason. Namely the “free” access to hollow functions in the PLATFORM. It’s all ala-carte so it’s like they’re giving us “free” access to the lunch room but cannot go get anything from the buffet. We can collaborate/visit with others that may be eating or just wandering around because they have access. Any of the apps require roles that need to be paid for.
their business model is saying,.. our clients want this (because what they are paying us is not enuf?) so all new clients will pay/subsidize those wants.
= their Marketing wants this (because they failed horribly in the past) to compete with other new potential sales.
So, our annual fees are not enuf… = they really suck at innovation and managment = they will buy/merge other companies/tech because they have extra $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ <()>
