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I made intensive use of the test period. The feature is great no question about it. But after talking to the sales team, I was very disillusioned. It's far too expensive - especially when you consider the fairly moderate price for Articulate360. In our case (200 translations required), one translated unit costs round 150 euros. This is disproportionate to our previous approach (Xliff Export - use the software PoEdit for automatic translation via DeepL - Xliff Import). The procedure takes 5 minutes and I have translated the unit. I can't for the life of me explain to any of our customers what the advantage of spending 150 euros to save 5 minutes of time is.
The only advantage is that I can have several translations directly in one unit, which is great...but not worth the extra cost. For 3 more languages in one unit, that's 450 euros. Then I'd rather use the functionality of the LMS.
Fair enough, the feature is well implemented and well thought out, but the price is simply excessive, considering the alternative you have and costs me next to nothing in comparison. The price for PoEdit incl. DeepL translation is just 48 euros per year(!!!) + a few more euros if the tokens per month are not enough.
MaRe when I ran the trial, I did see other benefits, in that you have a single multilingual module where the user can easily switch between languages, rather than multiple separate language modules that you would deploy separately in the LMS. I think some users might see the benefit in that and will feel it is worth the 150 euros if it means maintaining a single module. I think we'll see in future how this all pans out. I do think they will be monitoring these forums closely to see the users reaction to pricing and will most likely adjust.
I don't mind the price and could justify spending that. What I'm not a fan of, is that it's out of reach of users who don't do a large volume of translations per year.
