[LAUNCHED] All plans should offer more than 4 variable modes

Still no update from Figma on this topic?

Please amend this Figma! 😢

This is gross. We are all getting price increases for basically no new features (or no features people actually want/need).

Think about that for a minute. We have an org plan. Our design seats are going from $45 to $55USD/month. for 4 modes!! 😡 Like more modes would have been the easiest justification for a price bump.

This artificial cap is greedy and unnecessary. Seriously looking at Penpot as an alternative after many years of service to Figma.

 

Disappointed with this arbitrary limit that is clearly designed to squeeze money out of Figma users, rather than to cover any real cost associated with storing the variables. 

There is no mention of variable modes limits on the pricing page, so this is designed to catch out users.
https://www.figma.com/pricing/

Just adding to the choir here -- and ​@figma_admin it’s a big choir at this point -- that limiting the modes to 4, especially for org seats -- is extremely limiting and takes what is an amazing feature and renders it almost instantly useless. We are a small team that doesn’t need the additional features of enterprise, but this one missing feature is holding us back from using figma efficiently. 

I'm supporting the cause. Absolutely crazy that organization and proffesional plans have the same amount of modes. I would expect organization mode to have atleast 8-12 modes instead of the 4 that you get with a proffesional plan. 

At my company we are at an organization plan and with 4 modes it's basically a useless feature. I'd nearly call this criminal lmao. 
 

The only reason I can think of for no action on this is because Figma are planning an overhaul of the current Modes feature, rewriting it to be better/less buggy. Maybe we just need to wait for this? It’s a pity, because this is a core feature.

This is nuts. I’ve just spent ages planning my approach for a site that has 5 colour themes (with light and dark for both) and now I’m stuck trying to find a workaround. 4 modes is completely useless. Cynical approach to pricing! 

I contacted Figma to ask about upgrading 2 design seats from professional to Enterprise.

In the reply, they pointed out that to be on Enterprise, there is a minimum £5,000 annual spend! 

We are a charity that has several websites and apps and we’re trying to rebuild our design system to use modes/variables to make our design workflow more efficient, sharing components across all products but using modes to manage themes.  

We would be satisfied having to pay more to unlock the 40 modes (although it seems counterintuitive to limit one of the core functions for smaller teams) but a jump to 5K is just not gonna happen!