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Adobe Creative Suite - RIP?

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Eternal_Newbie:

--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 09 May 2013, 02:42 ---Who didn't?

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Me. I don't consider downloading the free version of CS2 and registry key Adobe recently put up on their website piracy. However I've hardly ever used it. Total overkill for my needs. Paint.Net and that other program with the ridiculous name are fine for all my present graphics needs.

But yeah, Photoshop's  popularity owes  as much to the ease of pirating it  as it does to it's killer features.

I get the feeling the CS applications have matured, and there aren't many new features being added, so the amount of people upgrading regularly is slowing, which is why Adobe is switching to a subscription model.

It could work out for them. Autodesk went subscription years ago and are still making money hand over fist. Although you can still buy Autodesk products, just don't try selling them second-hand, or expect product support.

EDIT: of course with AutoDesk the yearly subscription/lease works out cheaper than buying a new version outright yearly, which doesn't seem to be the case with Adobe Creative Cloud.

Welu:
Was talking with my media tutors about this. All round opinion is it's bloody annoying but you can't fault them for wanting a stable income.

pwhodges:
If they updated the programs at separate times rather than moving people to buying a suite which then had to be updated all at once, then the same objective could be achieved.  Of course, they'd have to ensure that upgrades of individual items remained compatible, but that would be no bad thing.  Or you could own the program after paying a year's subscription charges (whether monthly, or all up front) to even out the revenue flow.  There are lots of things they could have done, but this is the one that ensures that users never stop paying - it's less about continuous income than more income, I suspect.

mtmerrick:
As someone with first hand experience with autodesk's subscription services let me just tell you it sucks balls. They pretty much demand an absolutely obscene amount of money at absolutely the worst time possible,  and kill all backwards compatibility at the same time. Transferring licenses is damn near impossible, multiple installations are impossible, you’re allowed a licence of the older version to move to a different PC if you can get it to work, but it's rendered nearly unless because they have a new file format every year that the entire industry is forced to move to,  and it's not backwards compatible......

It's a bad joke,  that's what it is.

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