123 Cloud Drive to Discontinue Perpetual Memberships, Shift to Pay-as-You-Go Pricing
123 Cloud Drive has announced to its annual subscription users that after the new membership plans launch, existing multi-year, one-time-purchase memberships will be discontinued. They will be replaced by a prepaid, pay-as-you-go model. Users who maintain continuous auto-renewal can keep the old membership benefits they had when they first subscribed, and the priority order for membership activation will also be adjusted.
123 Cloud Drive to Discontinue Perpetual Membership Plans in Favor of Pay-as-You-Go Pricing
123 Cloud Drive officials revealed in a group chat for annual subscribers that after the new membership plans are launched, all existing VIP and SVIP packages will be discontinued. Perpetual memberships for long terms such as 3, 5, and 10 years will no longer be sold. Instead, the service will switch to a pay-as-you-go model where users prepay and are billed based on their usage, similar to utilities and cloud computing services.
The company stated that users who renew their subscriptions continuously without interruption can continue to enjoy the benefits of their original plans at the time of activation. However, the priority for membership benefits has been changed to: SVIP > VIP, continuous subscription > non-continuous subscription, and longer duration > shorter duration. Some long-time users have raised questions about this change.
