I purchase a lot of commercial IntelliJ&#x2F;WebStorm licenses for my company. Previously, the cost was $499&#x2F;y for new employees, $299&#x2F;y for existing employees. Now it looks like it will be a flat $319&#x2F;y for everyone. Eh, I&#x27;m OK with that. Now there&#x27;s also upfront volume discounts, whereas previously you had to talk to sales. In some ways it&#x27;s simpler for me, and the pricing is in line with other per-dev SaaS costs we have. Consider what you pay for a software Engineer and the productivity gains, personally it&#x27;s a no-brainer for me. It&#x27;s the best Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript etc. IDE by far.<p>With this change, I hope JetBrains takes the opportunity to switch from the big-bang yearly releases to just a continuous stream of improvements. In some ways they&#x27;ve already been moving in the this direction, they&#x27;ve added some pretty great improvements to point releases this year (React&#x2F;JSX, TypeScript etc. comes to mind). This will eliminate release timing anxiety on both sides (customers optimizing when the best time to buy is, and JetBrains deciding if releasing major new functionality now vs in the next big-bang release), and lets the company ship improvements as fast as possible.