![]() ![]() Allegedly this back dating fee was supposed to pay for all the development in the years you missed. Now days the new years version is barely different from the last with a few tweaks around the edges (bugs aside). The thing is Glen (BTW I agree with what you are saying), this new policy would have made some sense in the early days of SolidWorks when there really was a big difference between versions and huge amounts of manpower were used in the new versions. If they had changed it for new customers and grandfathered in existing customers I wouldn't have a problem with it. While I'm sure it was legal, I felt it was dishonest to change that policy for existing customers. Solidworks because they were told that they could skip subscription and get back on for $500.00. Some people and companies made the decision to buy Of all the questionable decisions Dassault has made, the one changing the upgrade policy is the one that I resent the most (and we stay on subscription so it doesn't even affect me). I've had this conversation with my boss and the final conclusion was that we're better off paying it then cutting subscriptions to save the cost because if we do end up having to pay later on to upgrade again, we would have to pay the backdating which would make it a bigger ammount and thus make it a harder pill to swallow. and I'm smacking myself wishing I would have made this decision versions ago. Unless someone can explain to me why we should be continuing, I'm thinking SW2022 will be as far as we go. So what exactly is the Value they are adding? what am I paying for? the amazing advances in the service packs? but not 1 time have I gotten an email from them informing me of an issue that they have been made aware of. I would think that our VAR would be warning us of the issues that they or others have found in Solidworks. How am I supposed to go to my boss and tell him that I think its worth it to keep paying. We are just paying for a shitty broken product and signing up to keep doing that year after year. I cant see paying a "Value added reseller" for this any of this "value" we are getting. We wont continue with our yearly service upgrades. Once we get service pack 23 from Solidworks, and most of the bugs that affect our day to day are pretty much resolved, I think we are done.
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