[microtonal]

If Jetbrains decides, in 2016, to increase the license fee to $300 per year, or $500,

Or even more likely (for an IDE that is ahead quite a lot): charge the same license fee, but don't supply any interesting new features.

This is one of my fundamental objections to the subscription model. In the perpetual license model, a company has to entice its customers every major version to shell out the money. How do you do this? By making the product even better. In the subscription model, that direct incentive is gone, the customer has to pay anyway.

[timv]

JetBrains admit as much in a comment on their blog:

> On the other hand, we think we’ll be able to concentrate on quality more than trying to impress users with new features so they buy upgrades. Our products are more than feature-full and we believe the quality is something that can always be improved.

Translation: We've run out of things that we think you'll actually want to pay for, so we've decided to force you to pay instead.

[microtonal]

It's really a shame :(, there's a lot of things that I can still think of, such as a decent Java profiler, a feature competing with JRebel (or far better DCEVM support), etc.