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.
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?)