Hi Mark,
LiveAccounts has a vibrant idea exchange; their track record for recognising and acting on ideas submitted has been proven. Remember, they only have one version of Live Accounts; if on the other hand they were saddled with 2 versions of multiple products like AccountRight the story may be much different.
Users continually make their way to the "Upgrading to AccountRight" board to see if anything has changed and often to express further disappointment with the product. I would estimate that over the last nine months there have been more views of that board than all other boards combined. Users want to know but are also "sitting on the fence" watching what is going on with that becoming the extent of their participation.
I've had a number of users email me with their AccountRight issues simply because they feel too intimidated by others to post their request the "Upgrading to AccountRight" board. I understand their intimidation in that there is vocal minority of users who appear tactless & act ignorantly of others as they award kudos to one another. This tends to create a cult of prattle whose only aim seems only to "stick it to MYOB"; it is most unfortunate as users are caught up in its web.
On the eve of the November 2011 launch of the Server managed AccountRight 2011 products, I quickly viewed the product ensemble that was to be released. I was absolutely devastated with it and I remarked to the Community Forum Manager, at that time, that it can only be a bad joke. Either that or there is an internal force out to bury MYOB's standing in the Market Place.
Hopefully now the "New Ideas" forum has been launched users have a definitive place to place their ideas; without fear of intimidation.
That just about sums up what I think...