I have a smallish personal site which I don't get a dime from, and yet if I were to upgrade to MT3, it would cost me at least $150, which is just ridiculous. The tiered pricing based on the number of users and blogs makes sense for commercial licenses, not for personal ones.

Kottke has a good post about this, so I'll save myself the repeating / rewording and just point to it.

What's making me annoyed about this new pricing structure isn't that now I'll have to give Six Apart money for MT. I very much want to give money to Six Apart for MT - it's a great tool and I've been enjoying it for a while. I'd already planned to donate to them once I actually got a job, and so had money to do so. Right now though, with this pricing structure, I really can't afford to pay as much as they're asking.

The prices for personal licenses are too high - that's what's annoying most people I've seen complain, not the fact that MT now actually costs money.

It's funny, though, in a way, if you think about it. I really want to give them money, but they're making it quite impossible for me to do so.