It's more a marketing and revenue mindset than a functional one that serves either customers or their own developers (who are forced to keep up with that pace and then have to pump out hotfix after hotfix to fix problems that were somehow not caught during the extensive Beta testing phase, or to fix problems created by previous hotfixes before them trying to fix other problems). Your suspicions as to why we have yearly upgrades instead of bi-annual (or even per every 18 months which used to be the original model when I started using ArchiCAD almost 20 years ago) are spot on. which is basically to say that this issue has been beaten to death (in the past, and as far back as 10 to 15 years now) and beyond now, hence the flogging a dead horse metaphor.Īnd which is also to say that GS don't seem responsive to this (yours) point of view or way of thinking.
Woudn't it be better if upgrades were bi-annual giving everyone time to find and fix bugs before the products are released to their paying customers? Archicad add-ons such as Cadimage, have no AC21 versions of help and tutorial videos - theirs go back to version 18! I think that much of this is due to the annual upgrades to Archicad, driven, I suspect, by marketing, instead of customer, demand. They will presumably never get round to releasing a proper version because there is no point. I note that AC21's HELP is still a DRAFT version. Here we are again - yet a new update coming up while they haven't properly fixed the current version.
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