Thomas_AT
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I just wanted to upgrade to the Pro+ Version as I've been a long term user of Speccy, Recuva and Defraggler.
However, when I proceed to checkout of Pro+ it says that it's a 1year license. OK, fair enough. But I don't want it to auto-renew. Then the price increases by 10€ to a total of 40€. Yet the license seems to expire after year.
That's the point where I started to lose interest. I mean 30€ initial licensing and e.g. 12€ per year afterwards would be a fair deal. CCleaner isn't getting that many updates that would justify 40€ each year... However, what killed it for me is the licensing per machine. In 2019? Microsoft/App Store anyone?@Pirifom I would really like to purchase your product, but that licensing model is really early 2000 style... Also the fact that there's a 4 paged thread for the subscription model is proof enough of that I'm not alone with this point of view...
CCleaner Pro+ Outdated Licensing Model
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Since it seems like there was an update to the pricing/licensing I purchased on Thursday. (Basically, deselecting subscripions didn't increase price by 10€ again and more importantly, licensing isn't limited to 1 machine anymore.)
@Andavari As a software vendor you have to make a tough choice on the licensing model:
Of course, these choices highly depend on the amount of potential customers - in case of Piriform every Windows user. So, the customer base is not a problem for Piriform. What is, is the question if the amount of paying customers would double if the price would get reduced 50%. Or, in software market, where production cost is not related to amount of units sold: Dumping the price to afraction of the current license and almost everyone buys the software. For the latter of course, it needs to become some really essential tool. (Ín case of CCleaner I would try to greatly expand the "Tools-Section"... there's a lot of potential, e.g. scripts to deal with common sync-issues (OneDrive/GDrive Reset for example), trigger Windows 10 clean shutdown [basically a "shutdown -s -t 0"] and so on of which most are simple command-lines, registry settings or GPOs.)