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Localization News!
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.
The worst about localization tokens is you can only buy the tokens in bulk + they expire if not used during a specific period. That's absolutely horrendous for the price. If you could keep them indefinitely it might pay off.
For example, we already used up our bundle of 25 tokens. We would need to translate 2 more courses, but we are not going to invest into 25 more tokens, since 23 of them will likely expire. If they didn't expire we would sbolutely invest, since we can use them up later. It's a dumb system.
Hey NathalieAlex957 — thanks for surfacing this! I brought this back to the team, your account owners are going to reach out directly + someone from Articulate's team to chat through your case and see what options we have to support.
