[mike]

Nicely communicated. Everything that JetBrains does around their pricing and subscription model always feels really fair and classy to me. (perpetual fallback licensing, continuity discounts).

In this case, being completely upfront in the post title that this is a price increase, no "Updated pricing" or "Revised pricing" etc. Reasonable notice period with an option to renew for multiple years at the current pricing before the change comes into effect.

[ochronus]

This, so much! I wish more companies/products would do it like this (sure, we can debate the actual prices, etc.)

[Aeolun]

To be fair, if a huge number of people renew at the current rate for 3 years that’s a nice war-chest for Jetbrains in the coming years.

[mrunkel]

I just logged into my account, I can't see a way to renew for three years. The only option I have is to switch from annual to monthly billing.

[mike]

On https://account.jetbrains.com/licenses if you click "Renew" for the appropriate product then on the next page, under the Subscription dropdown there should also be a "Purchase Period" dropdown. It's probably set to "Default" rather than "1 year", but can be changed to "2 years" or "3 years". Does that option not appear for you?

[mrunkel]

Thanks, I found it…

[topka]

This is strange. Try to go to check out and you should see "Purchase period" there. If not, please contact [e-mail]. Thanks!

[202206241203]

> During this time, we have introduced new products that have been included at no extra cost to everyone using the latter.

It's like a landlord doing unrequested renovation and then sending a bill.

[samwillis]

No, its like a landlord doing renovations and improvements to keep up with the local property market and then putting rent up to match those improvements and maintain parity with the market. (with notice and options to pay old level for period upfront)

[dcminter]

It really isn't.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206544679-What...

I can stop paying and carry on using the product indefinitely. Try that with your landlord regardless of renovations!

[nightski]

Sort of. You can keep using the product version from when you last paid (the beginning of the sub not the end). So if you were annual then you actually have to downgrade to a 1 year old version. It's a really wonky system. I was pretty upset when they switched to it but I love their products enough that I gave in.

[lolinder]

More like a landlord doing renovation, feeling the budget crunch, and looking at the calendar and realizing "Oops! I forgot to raise rent in the past 7 years!"

The price increase they're asking for is approximately equal to inflation from 2015-2021. They don't even try to include the last year's inflation.

[cyral]

You can continue using the old version without paying if you don’t renew, so it’s not really comparable at all.