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Comment by nikolay | Hacker News Reader

First, they lied to us - I paid a high initial price, it was supposed to be followed by a decreasing in time 3 or 4 annual payments, but they completely changed their pricing, and now they charge every year and now - they are even increasing the price! Given that I don't use their IDEs but agreed to get the promised lifetime license just in case, it's time to stop paying for something that I'm not using!

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The price still goes down every year, it's just at a higher price. (Not sure about your "high initial price" — was that a perpetual license?)

Note that you can renew for 3 years at a time at the current pricing. And if you've been paying for it for a while, you can always use the perpetual fall-back license: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/sections/201619995-Our-...

If you're not using it, why pay for it?

I explained - I wanted to get the promised lifetime license. I've been paying since 2015, which became the typical bait and switch.

You should still have a lifetime license for the version you most recently paid for. Is that not the case?

E.g. if you bought the 2019 version, then, if you never pay another cent, in 2031, you still have a license for the 2019 version.

That was not the original deal though. They changed their offering but did not grandfather us. No wonder - they are an Eastern European company, and such concepts don't exist there! Yeah, I can say that as I'm Eastern European myself.

I’ve had my Jetbrains account for about 8 years. It’s been that way as long as I’ve had it. When did you get yours?

Edit: grammar

There was a huge polemic here on HN when they announced the subscription model, so, they responded to it by offering something like an installment plan. But it was abandoned even if people like me bought into it.

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