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> The price for a Sublime Text license key has increased by $11 to $70, the first price rise in Sublime Text’s five year history

That's a pretty big jump. Not saying it's not worth it.

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I was thinking the opposite. I'm glad he's charging for upgrades, and charging a decent price for something some developers use all day everyday. I hope this will enable him to continue developing ST.

I'm growing fairly dependent on plugins, though -- I hope the new API isn't too hard for plugin devs to upgrade. Although with most plugins hosted on Github these days, compat is just a pull request away.

So you don't think a ~640% pricing increase rather large? I'm not saying the software isn't worth $70. But relative to it's previous price, I think it's a pretty significant increase.

Edit: My mistake - I just can't read. It was an $11 increase in price.

it went from 59$ to 70$

It's increased BY 11$, not FROM 11$. Certainly not 640%.

The strange part is, I swear I remember buying Sublime Text 2 for $50.

edit: it appears I was right and I just misread: the price increased from $59 to $70.

I'm pretty sure you are right, I don't remember it being $11 because I could have afforded that but $50 was harder to do at the time I was looking into it

It was $59 and the price was increased by $11 to $70. I read it wrong at first too.

It's not a pretty big jump. It's only slightly more than what the author needs to keep up with economic inflation. Assuming 3% inflation per year, Sublime would have costed 59*1.03^5=68.40 USD now.

You're making a reading comprehension error (it was an incrase of $11 from $59 to $70).

Although it's a silly error, I made the same one, and I know that I bought ST for $59. So I think the problem here is with the wording, not with us.

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