# Dev Diary Ep27 - Pricing and Beta News!

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-ep27-pricing-and-beta-news/43831>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [July 25, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-ep27-pricing-and-beta-news/43831 "2024-07-25T16:58:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![tony2u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@tony2u](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/tony2u)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-ep27-pricing-and-beta-news/43831/62 "2024-09-17T18:44:46Z")

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I agree. I’m old school. I prefer to buy software and be done with it. I refuse to purchase any subscription based software. Adobe and Intuit Quickbooks both lost my company’s business. They try to make it sound cheap but it always cost more. Shareholders want a steady revenue stream and it’s okay to lose a few customers to lock in their profit margins.

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**Author:** ![reflex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@reflex](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/reflex)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-ep27-pricing-and-beta-news/43831/63 "2025-03-01T22:08:34Z")

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I’d like to add my 2c here, speaking as a potential new customer. Apologies if it’s been covered before. I’ve scanned but not seen anything so will add it here.

I have a question / issue regarding the announced pricing methods.

While I do understand that this isn’t a subscription model, why is it priced like one? What I mean is purchasing a (2 Mac) licence costs $x, but then paying the same amount annually to keep receiving updates seems illogical?

What Realmac is selling is essentially a perpetual licence + service agreement. The latter part is normally only a fraction of the former. At the most it should be ⅓ of the purchase cost.

TBH when big feature releases stop, I expect I’ll only “subscribe” every 4-5 years to catch up.

Moreover, if I was a business rather than a hobbyist, I’d likely purchase a “fresh” copy and then be able to instal it on 2 more Macs and let new employees use the older versions.

I can’t see a new purchase and receiving bug fixes as being of equal value. Also the price more than doubling every tier for a few more features is discouraging. (Or I could see it as being a really expensive programme, but with steep discounts for people who don’t need a few features?)

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