Comment by sireat
5 years ago
A huge part of the backslash actually happened here on HN when they originally proposed the pure (like Adobe and 90% of other companies) SaaS model.
So Jetbrains model is an improvement over most other companies but it is not as consumer friendly as the old licensing model.
I would love to have the old model back(buy now with 12 months of updates) but that ship has sailed.
Sure, it came about due to backlash - but they still listened to their customer base and made changes, quite publicly admitting they had pushed the subscription model too far.
Honestly I’m quite happy with it as a compromise, especially with the All Products Pack - I save money every year than when I used to buy upgrades for IntelliJ and ReSharper stand-alone, and JetBrains has incentive to keep pumping out new features to keep me from deciding to utilize my fallback license.