While I'm at it, I'll also throw out my other wish... I wish they would make different versions of the subscription program. Something like:
1) Annual upgrades (current flavour)
2) Upgrades every OTHER year
3) Every third year
I dunno... I'll just shut up now.
Thats not a bad idea. I can see a number of companies getting on board with that, with a larger discount for larger intervals.
Except it's the exact opposite of what Autodesk wants... They want you to upgrade every year. If they gave you larger discounts for larger intervals, you would have an incentive for the exact opposite. In fact, we'd have people clamoring for a really cheap upgrade once every four years, or something like that.
Not gonna happen.
Because it's also backwards from logic, if you look at it another way. If the product improvements are worth $500 for every year of improvements, advancements, additions, fixes, and tuning... and you only upgraded every 2 years, well, thing is, you're still getting 2 years worth of all those improvements, advancements, additions, etc... so by installing 2010, and 2012, you are still getting $1,500 worth of upgrade, even though you only bought $1,000 worth of releases... just because you didn't buy 2011, doesn't mean you didn't get it's advances when you installed 2012... so I can kind of see their logic, but it took me a very long time to come to this conclusion.
Basically what people want is to pay one low price for continual years worth of advancement.