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I really liked the old way it used to work. You bought a license for software and got only bugfixes and security patches. Every second year there was a new vers
by szastamasta 4y ago
I really liked the old way it used to work. You bought a license for software and got only bugfixes and security patches. Every second year there was a new version released with 50-75% upgrade price for current users.
I totally understand subscriptions for online services that run on provider servers/storage etc. (like Evernote) or content services where you get access to a vast database of always growing content, that you would never afford to buy at once. But stuff like Bear notes, Autodesk Fusion 360, etc. These I don’t understand. If you cannot justify a new version users want to pay for, then don’t make it. I think most users would gladly pay for new features and improvements. Just don’t make them cash cows driving your business model on fear of loss.
- varispeed 4y ago> Autodesk Fusion 360 They shoehorn their cloud service and certain operations are done on their servers, which are awfully slow. It seems like they added this to justify a subscription and not to give any benefit to the user.
- szastamasta 4y agoYeah, and these services (namely renders of the designs) are still paid outside of main subscription fee. What’s worst is that these cloud services make the app worse. I want to work on a file I have on my computer, not upload it to cloud first so it works slower.