I&#x27;m of two minds about this. In one way, I was updating Appcode, PhpStorm and IntelliJ once a year anyways, so this is going to be considerably cheaper.<p>On the other hand, I liked the safety net that if worse comes to worst, I&#x27;ll be able to keep my existing license forever. Losing this leaves a kind of sour taste behind.<p>If this was really about simplicity and not at all about profit maximization as they claimed, then they would keep the perpetual usage rights and make the subscriptions only required for the updates.<p>As it stands now, they could stop developing their products tomorrow and people will still be forced to pay until something better comes around