&gt; 1. If they &quot;go out of business&quot; you will save money with the new model, because instead of paying for a year of the license in advance, you are paying by month.<p>Oh, it&#x27;s <i>much</i> worse than that.  With the old licensing model, if JetBrains went out of business, you&#x27;d be left with an antiquated IDE <i>that works</i>. Under the new model, you&#x27;d be left with nothing because the IDEs need to call-home and verify against a licensing server. Who knows what happens when the licensing server gets decommissioned (I guess you could ask EA customers).