They want everyone on subscriptions, so they’re just pricing the lifetime pass ridiculously high to discourage its purchase. If anyone does buy it they make big bucks, but if they don’t they make subscription money.

This is the type of move you pull when you know you’ve got the market cornered.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, like we (the one good accounting office I worked at) would buy licenses (not rent) for Microsoft office. Instead of paying 40 a user a month or whatever, we paid 400 a user once. It bugged the hell out of our inhouse IT "specialist" (the partner who liked to play with computers) but he could pay 500 a year per employee for his own software.

It looked cost prohibitive, but it was just a lump sum instead of an annuity. It was still only $100 software tho.