Originally Posted by
flightyryan
Ya, that’s fishy. Hopefully it’s clear we would not do that. (Hopefully any company that does that is doing it for a literal crisis and explains it. Such as “we will shutdown next month if we don’t”.)
I do agree with you – Lifetime is a risk as a user, no matter what. I know people hate subscriptions, but they have upsides too.
I think Pixelmator did something like that recently and it pissed me off. I did buy a license way back. Ultimately I just went back to Adobe even if they're not the best company in the world. If I'm going to subscribe, I rather go with a company that has the resources to put out the best possible product.
It might not make business sense, but I think it would be ethical to perhaps put a disclaimer that you reserve the right to create a new tier with even more features and that "lifetime" may not be what "lifetime" means to an average Joe. I appreciate honesty more than anything.
I hate subscriptions, but at least I know I wasn't scammed into thinking I was truly getting a lifetime license. Who knows if your app will still exist a decade from now?