I was using Tower 2 for years, and have been using the beta for a while, and love it. However, I'm really in two minds about the way they've chosen to implement

I was using Tower 2 for years, and have been using the beta for a while, and love it. However, I'm really in two minds about the way they've chosen to implement their payment model change... On the one hand, I'm a proponent of subscription pricing, as it keeps the company in business and gives them a more consistent and dependable revenue stream, all of which are positive things. On the other hand, the pricing for this seems REALLY high -- they're charging close to what their perpetual license used to cost, but now on a yearly basis! (it used to be $79, while the new Basic yearly license is $69). I'm happy to pay for a product I use and enjoy, but I don't think you can have it both ways... either you significantly reduce the cost but charge yearly, or you keep the cost high and charge it once. I feel like Adobe did this really well despite the large amount of grumbling that the move produced -- their products used to be too expensive to buy for many people, and they introduced a subscription model that isn't exactly cheap but is definitely within the realm of reason, which allowed people to actually afford their products. I'll have to think about whether Tower is worth this much money yearly (basically, whether I'd be willing to buy it again every year). It might be time to look into alternatives... when I first started using Tower it was head and shoulders above the competition, but I've been hearing good things about how much SourceTree has improved in the past few years.