<i>If Jetbrains decides, in 2016, to increase the license fee to $300 per year, or $500,</i><p>Or even more likely (for an IDE that is ahead quite a lot): charge the same license fee, but don&#x27;t supply any interesting new features.<p>This is one of my fundamental objections to the subscription model. In the perpetual license model, a company has to entice its customers every major version to shell out the money. How do you do this? By making the product even better. In the subscription model, that direct incentive is gone, the customer has to pay anyway.