Storyline 4 dates

Hi Ashley,

Can you at least say is Storyline 4 even considered? Wandering around articulate page I have that feeling, that... sadly, no. To get an information on Storyline 3 I must dig a little now.

Of course I understand that subscription model is probably way more profitable than standalone versions, but sadly for non USD or EUR countries, it's really pricey. I'd love to continue work with Storyline, since I'm with it from 2012, but the cost can be killing, especially if my company would like to hire another person to do learning content (we are small business doing e-learnings on-demand, not some big corporation making tons of learnings a year). Upgrading once in 3 year is really attractive and helps to maintain costs. You have done some nice things with 360 (enhanced object positioning and modern player for example), but the first one only makes working more comfortable, and the second one, with some work, can be achieved in storyline3.

But I'll probably buy the 360 subscription, if I could do it like Adobe did with CC. You just want just one app? Ok, here you go, take it. You want all apps? Sure, no problem, just pay us a little more. Maybe you want additional access to stock library? Here you go, just few more dollars. If I could choose that I only want Articulate 360, without any additional content. Fairly, I don't see any use of studio, rise, replay or review. I also don't see a need to use content library.

What I'm trying to say... Please, let us have a little freedom in WHAT we want to buy :) Considering above, if I need to pay for only Storyline360 I'd probably go for it. Now, I'll stick to the good old SL3 :)

I'm going to chime in here with another voice in support of perpetual versions. In your current business schema you've overlooked the needs of many of your customers: specifically, contractors. I am one of them, and it just isn't practical for me to sign onto an annual subscription when next year's clients may want all ILT or Lectora. What happens then, when I've been working on another type of project entirely for 8 months and a previous client asks for a "quick fix" to something in SL? At that point I can't even access something that is part of my own portfolio! Quite a lot of your customers are contractors like myself, and you've put us in a bind. 

Hi Ashley,

Why doesn't Articulate benchmark from Adobe and offer Storyline 360 in a perpetual version, taking into account that any cloud-based functions will be lost, as Adobe does with Captivate 2019? Adobe offers a cloud-based subscription (for much cheaper than 360 by the way) for Captivate or you can get the full version as a stand-alone. We have both perpetual versions of Captivate 2019 and Storyline 3. As part of the DoD, we can't allow ANY cloud-based software from an outside agency into our networks for national security reasons so your product is slowly becoming obsolete to our agency and probably soon to a lot of other Government agencies that have strict network security protocols. You might want to re-evaluate your business model if you want to keep some of the Government agencies as well as some corporations that take network security seriously.  

Hello All. Hopefully Articulate consider the population of consumers that are unable to use 360 due to Federal or corporate policy governing sensitive content. Perpetual licenses are sensible and ideal for consumers that must use tools to develop sensitive content.

Perhaps Articulate may consider bringing their suite of fantastic tools to FedRAMP, there is a huge and open market for these types of tools that could be used in the government sector.

Hi xx, 

We're continuing to support Storyline 3 with bug fixes, but we haven’t made any decisions about developing a new perpetual version of Storyline (aka Storyline 4). 

If you have any other questions, happy to answer them or feel free to connect with our team one-on-one! 

Hi,

I have SL 3 and have been using it for many projects over the last six months. I really like it and am very comfortable using it. I have used it since it first come out.

I also have a perpetual license for Adobe Captivate. What I really appreciated about Captivate is that they update BOTH the subscription and perpetual versions at the same time. Unfortunately Articulate continues to develop and add features to 360, but does not bother updating StoryLine 3.

I will NEVER subscribe to 360 because of cost, unneeded and obsolete applications, and that it is SLOW. All of the other eLearning tools I use are 64 bit applications. So I only use SL3 for small, limited applications.

Fortunately, we have many other options for developing high-quality eLearning. However, StoryLine is like an old friend, and I will be sad to see it go.

Hi Brant,

I appreciate you following up on this. To add clarity, we have no plans on our roadmap for Storyline 4. If that changes, we'll let folks know.

For now, we'll continue to stick with our goals of updating Storyline 3 approximately twice a year with bug fixes, security improvements, and enhancements to critical features like accessibility.

Hi Carol!  Based on overwhelming customer demand, we’ve been focused on delivering continuous updates to Articulate 360 apps and content, and all of our latest 360 updates can be found here: https://articulate.com/360/whats-new  That being said, we are paying close attention to demand for perpetual products but have not yet made a decision on future releases to Storyline.

Please release Storyline 4. Storyline 360 is a dumpster fire, at least on my computer, which was built to run multiple graphics programs simultaneously.  I have 32 gb of RAM and I can run multiiple instances of Storyline 2 and 3, Photoshop, Illustrator and animation software at once, without a hitch. The only thing that lags is Storyline 360. And it crashes constantly. I save multiple times per slide because it crashes so often. I have reinstalled and run the repair software with no improvement.

Oh, and the Content Library is just photos I could get for free from other sites like Unsplash. Gee, what a benefit.

I'm done venting now. Please release Storyline 4. Otherwise, I will have to stick with 3 forever. I am not paying a yearly subscription for 360.

Hi Shannon,

I'm sorry you've had such trouble with Storyline 360, and it's definitely not the experience we'd expect! Our Support Team would be happy to look further into what's causing such a slow down on your system. 

We also understand that Articulate 360 isn't for everyone, so if you don't need access to tools such as Content Library, Review hosting, Live webinars, etc. Storyline 3 would be a great fit. We'll keep you posted if we have any other news about future perpetual products.