Comment by mthoms
5 years ago
That's misleading. Each year has multiple point releases. You don't get the latest point release.
My PHPStorm subscription expires in less than a week. In order to continue using it (without re-subbing), I have to downgrade from 2019.3 (current release) to 2018.3 (the release available on the date I subbed). Software that is one year old.
Similarly, the JetBrains site says my WebStorm subscription expires in around 10 months. At which point I have to downgrade to 2019.2 if I don't re-sub. Today's current version is 2019.3.
>Also every year the price goes down, so you pay less and less
That part is true and it's certainly commendable that they do that.
I recently renewed my PHPStorm subscription (again). Not because there are hot features released in the past year which I'd miss.
Rather, I thing it is right thing to do - to pay some recurring cost for the software we use and to let the developers of that software to make their buck.
We are too accustomed to get everything for free at the expense of someone else.