I personally find the 70$ price tag rather high for a text editor. However, this is not my main issue
For this premium price I do not only expect features but as well documentation and if you are a plugin developer the current ST2 documentation is just plain bad because it misses too much. In addition, even though ST2 is highly configurable nowhere are all the options explained that you can use and manually set. I fins this rather annoying and think this was something to fix along the ST2 life cycle.
I'm not sure if the beta will conivince me in paying another 30$ for hope that this will some days come.
I couldn't agree more, I'm not a wealthy person and while $70 might be chump change to some users, to me that would represent a large amount of money - I couldn't justify to myself to spend it, I would love to be able to pay like $25 or $30 because I would probably be okay with that.
I just don't see the differences between the two being enough to justify me spending that amount of money, especially not when I'm doing just fine with Sublime Text 2 (and yes, yes, the old Hammer being used as a screwdriver argument will inevitably pop up now I've said that) and have no real reason to switch.
Even though I'm not earning money using ST2, I'm still loving it. However, there is always a feeling about price. And I think 70$ is a lot. Compare this to 30$ for Mountain Lion, 99$ for Aperture 3 and 129$ for Lightroom 4. Does this feel right? I'm not against paying in general rather I want to have a good feeling spending the money.
I'm not sure if the beta will conivince me in paying another 30$ for hope that this will some days come.