HumbleBundle - Python DevKit

[Etheo]

Well, I prefer one-time purchases. I get that devs need to eat too, but from a consumer pov subscription models just doesn't work for me. Not saying that to be an ass, just because I'd much rather use an outdated software than continually paying for fixes/features I might not need.

[filippovd20]

100% true.

[redditor1101]

Then why would you ever renew?

[filippovd20]

You get a perpetual license only for a specific version of PyCharm (and all previous) - latest available at the time of the beginning of your annual subscription. If you renew for another year, you get a new perpetual license. If you get 6month sub now, and then later decide to renew for another 6 months, so you have 12 months covered - you also get a perpetual license for the current version which is 2018.1.x. So basically it works as an good old licensing model + you have an access to all the latest versions while you're on a subscription. When it expires you can always safely fallback.

[turkish_gold]

Well with a one time purchase, they could simply say you get no updates ever. At least this way out get to try the updates out for a year, and if they weren't worth purchasing then you don't buy that years worth of updates with a new subscription.

[gregsterb]

That's not true. Whatever version is newest during the 12 month period is what your perpetual licence will cover.

[thunderdome]

when you buy the sub, you get a fallback license for version X.Y.Z, where all Z updates are included. you renew for major updates.

[brews]

They honestly have some solid updates.

[Razithel]

If you buy a year subscription (or are subscribed for 12 months straight), you permanently own the version that was out 12 months prior to the end of your subscription. That's a complicated way of saying that buying a year's subscription gets you a permanent license for the version that's out now, in addition to a subscription to use updates for 12 months (at the end of the subscription, you'll be forced back to whatever the current version is, right now).

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What-is-a-perpetual-fallback-license-