For me, it's a lot of things. - It's about trust. I pay once, and I get to "keep" it for as long as I want. Same reason I will never buy anything that is web/c

For me, it's a lot of things. - It's about trust. I pay once, and I get to "keep" it for as long as I want. Same reason I will never buy anything that is web/cloud based. I like paying once and getting a binary file that I can keep on my hard disk. I see plenty of serious photographers using Photoshop CS6, and some even Photoshop 7.0. I would like to own the file. - Company might just increase subscriptions price in the future. With one-time pay, that's not a problem. - A lot of companies just set subscription prices by converting from Dollar/Euro. That doesn’t make sende where I live. The ideal way would be take the Purchase-Power-Parity into account.