I don’t know how I feel about a subscription fee… I think i’d have to see it in action and debugged first the same way as I do with the updates. I like the idea of pitching in to buy the company way better lol.
I will say this though… I’ve built my entire business around nuendo. I’m doing things here and paying my bills in ways that I simply would not be able to do with out a much higher overhead, be it one time or otherwise, that comes with protools/mac. I have ideas for nuendo functions all the time… I don’t come up with them cause I’m sitting here with nothing to do, I come up with them when I’m bogged down and under deadlines, cause I see how I can make more money faster if they were implemented.
I personally, WOULD pay a little here and there if there were some sort of Steinberg Lobby that could give me access to the developers. If it actually worked and i got my ideas in, it would be money well spent.