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Originally Posted by Stephen Bond
Well the party may be over. Probably not though 
It's slightly strange how they have gone about this. Firstly, offer some of the best sales and discounts ever in the history of the company.
Then bring out news of 6 new plugins and a "deal of a lifetime" to follow.
Lastly to drop the subscription bomb 
It is clear that probably the majority of PIA customer hate the subscription model. That's why we are PIA customers. Great products, great prices when the sales drop and no fees thereafter or pay till you die "deal".
This is frankly NO DEAL except for PIA unless you are new to the party.
Let's see what happens went the dust settles but they have clearly misjudged the response big time.
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At least we still can get permanent licenses - but for how long?
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Originally Posted by PatriotsBiker
Did he just kind of sort of throw his staff out in front of the bus? Dang!!!!
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He may well have. Dirk surely misjudged his customers. Didn't he do his real research and not just talk to companies but to the people who actually buy s/w? If he did the latter he would have known how universally hated subscription models are by end users.
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Originally Posted by 64GTOBOY
I admit to laughing at this bit "As you can imagine we are signing up tons of people for the new subscription service right now (thank you!), ..."
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Whistling past the graveyard Dirk is. I know you've taken part in the GS thread I linked to - what do you think of it now?