Be it subscription or not, I still don't consider C3 to be a brand new product knowing how much time I spent with C2.
Scirra should have entered the web application building market and delivered a C2 app creator edition.
And that way they would have been the first company to introduce the world's first no-coding required app creator.
But instead they spent 3 years porting C2 to the web without getting the opinion of their userbase, which made a lot of users leave the forums and look for alternatives.
Bad decision.