Re:Subscription Hell
by taneq on Sunday May 06, 2018 @09:10PM
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I think this:
> The trick is that at the end of your yearly subscription you have already upgraded to a newer version, so falling back to the perpetual license means downgrading, which is both often a practical problem and (perhaps most importantly) something that I think many have an emotional aversion to.
Qualifies as
> a particularly hamfisted attempt to grab an almost negligible amount of money
OK, so maybe it's not as negligible an amount but it feels petty and I'd not pay money to a company that pulls stunts like that on its customers.
> The trick is that at the end of your yearly subscription you have already upgraded to a newer version, so falling back to the perpetual license means downgrading, which is both often a practical problem and (perhaps most importantly) something that I think many have an emotional aversion to.
Qualifies as
> a particularly hamfisted attempt to grab an almost negligible amount of money
OK, so maybe it's not as negligible an amount but it feels petty and I'd not pay money to a company that pulls stunts like that on its customers.