I always assumed that this option was not offered because it would be easy to abuse. Pay for a few months, publish your app, then cancel your monthly subscription. When you need to update your app, renew for a month, then cancel again.
I think this could easily be prohibited by a “yearly contract” (but still monthly payment rates…) - like a typical mobile phone contract (in Germany at least usually valid for two years). So a model could be: You are obliged to pay your monthly rates for a year at least. Still much better (for me at least) than paying the whole amount at once.
Marco
Marco,
I wouldn’t say this is easy. How is a US based company suppose to enforce this contract all over the world?
With the phone company, if you don’t pay, they cut off your service. With corona, if you don’t pay, they stop you from doing a build. But what if you don’t need to do a build for a few months?
Easily. Photoshop does the same thing. If you want to cancel your plan with them, you have to pay 50% of the remaining subscription term (the total amount you have left to pay in the 12 months / 2) to buy yourself out. It’s a fair compromise.
There should be an option for monthly or even 3 X monthly subscriptions because some people simply cannot afford the annual outlay if they might want to test the water for 3 or 6 months. Add to that the cost of professional design software and tools - Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Pro, Spine Pro and having to buy a MAC for PC devs etc - it all soon adds up and for a small indie starting out with no guarantee of ROI, i cannot see why Fusepowered can’t make this change in 2015.
I would also like to add that at a time when many people are moving over to Unity because of it’s FREE license and 2D feature set, i would say Coronalabs should do this now rather than later.
Hey @MisterK!
I have my Pro subscription on hold and if you are interested, I can get it transferred to you. I have 5 months left and the normal cost is $49/month but I would charge only $179 for 5 months (That falls to be $35.8). If you are interested, I would need your username and email for the corona support staff to transfer it to you.
Let me know! (You can send me a private message)
Thank you 
+1 to this