I've been renewing happily for $240, I believe.   I have had a dongle now for about 2 decades, and I have not paid extra to keep this feature.

This year, it seems if I decide to renew, it will be $400 to keep it.  This seems like a policy change.

Has anyone else come across this?  

Prices for perpetual support plans had not changed for a long time, then went up July 2019, from 299/yr to 399/yr, adding an incentive (discount) when cross-grading from perpetual to subscription.

It is not specifically a dongle thing, but since only perpetual licenses can live on dongles, it does affect those who want to keep using dongles.

https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/FAQ/Media-Composer-Price-Adjustment

Occasionally there are discounts, I tend to purchase via Videoguys, who have structurally offered the lowest price for MC.

Thank you Job - I missed that when it happend.

I appreciate this information.

Hi Atomike,

  We posted this to on the Community and Facebook sorry you missed it.

RalphC

P.S. I own three dongled licenses and also have a regular subscription. What I did not realize is that such a subscription (or any software license) can be activated on two machines. You can only launch one at a time, but I easily share this MC Standard subscription between my laptop (for on-the-road work) and an office machine (for occasional imports/exports) with zero activation issues. Just adding that info, as for some, that may weigh in on the decision to stay perpetual or crossgrade.