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27182818284 on Sept 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Ju...

Everyone I've talked to wanted a slight pricing model change with JetBrains, myself included, but nobody wanted a subscription service.

It is just that, often you find yourself wanting PHPStorm, and PyCharms, but that's it. A simple buy one-full-price-half-off-second scheme would have got people like me to say, "yeah sure, let's buy up PyCharms this weekend. Why not?"

timv on Sept 7, 2015 [–]

And the thing is, they didn't even solve the issue people wanted.

Yes, you can buy everything for US$19.90 per month.

Or you can buy PHPStorm+PyCharm for ($7.90+$7.90) = $15.80

So, under the new model, it's still cheaper to just buy two full-price licenses. There's no discount for the 2nd product.

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