I've been paying $19.99 a month for a year now for the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite. Gotta love the student and teacher discount.![]()
And you will be paying for it THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
Lucky you.
I've been paying $19.99 a month for a year now for the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite. Gotta love the student and teacher discount.![]()
That's just about a lifetime too short.
I don't care how low the price is: I don't buy things with reoccurring fees.
This is a wonderful deal...FOR ADOBE.
$120/year
$600/5years
What a great deal for Adobe given that we don't really need to upgrade. This is their way of forcing people to keep paying them for the same thing.
Of course, it only works if you have cloud service. No internet? Sorry sucker!
The apps themselves are installed locally. They only have to phone-home once every 30 days to validate a current subscription. And they give a grace period if not.
-Kevin
What's the difference on where the rental software is stored? You will end up paying for it forever and that's the problem.
Total rip off. Once they got you for the year and they'll charge as much as they want, because if not all your files are useless.
Adobe is a RIP off company.
I may as well sign up. I was going to buy LR5 anyway for $80, so this is like spreading it over 8 months. LR4 and PS6 will stay on my machine though.
You mean like your cable, iPhone, or electric bill?
Major face palm. Just mail your wallet to me and we'll make this easy for everyone.
"I was going to buy LR5 anyway for $80, so this is like spreading it over 8 months."
So what happens after 8 months? You just normally buy LR every 8 months? You realize you will be paying $10 a month after 8 months for no reason so buy LR and send me the $10 a month after 8 months.
Major face palm. Just mail your wallet to me and we'll make this easy for everyone.
"I was going to buy LR5 anyway for $80, so this is like spreading it over 8 months."
So what happens after 8 months? You just normally buy LR every 8 months? You realize you will be paying $10 a month after 8 months for no reason so buy LR and send me the $10 a month after 8 months.
It sounds like Adobe didn't attract enough of its core users to make the money they were hoping for with the original 9.99 deal so they're expanding this to everyone.
Those who say this is a good deal are either easily fooled or just don't know any better.
What's the difference on where the rental software is stored?
If someone needs to be on the latest and greatest, and legally obtain the software, as in the agency I work for, the monthly subscription fee makes sense.
How much do you pay Adobe under the old program where you buy Photoshop and own it and then buy the upgrade about every three years.
And how much do you pay Adobe under the old program where you buy Photoshop and own it and then don't buy all the upgrades?
And how's your powerPC Mac running these days?
This is a wonderful deal...FOR ADOBE.
$120/year
$600/5years
What a great deal for Adobe given that we don't really need to upgrade. This is their way of forcing people to keep paying them for the same thing.
Of course, it only works if you have cloud service. No internet? Sorry sucker!
Well I went from CS1 to CS5, so I don't upgrade even that much. But the biggest problem with this is that you are giving all control to Adobe, who at any time can jack up the prices and you will just have to smile and take it.Man I'm surprised by all the sniping here. Don't really get it. This seems like a fine deal to me.
You already do essentially pay by the month for the software you "bought", unless you're a luddite. The fact of the matter is that all software has a shelf-life. Technology marches on.
How many of you, exactly, are still running Photoshop 7.0, which for the first time included Healing Brush (yes!), vector text (awesome!), and still supported Mac OS classic (weeeee!)?
Just some simple math, let's say your life played out like this:
Buy photoshop 7.0 in 2002 - $600
In 2005, you finally jump on the CS bandwagon with CS2 to get camera raw for your shiny new digital SLR, upgrade $200
In 2010, after a really long time, you finally have an INTEL MAC, so you jump to CS5 (universal), upgrade $200
Here we are in 2013, you'd like to upgrade, and you just really WISH they would give you the chance to outright buy CC - $200
That's $1200 over 144 months. Congrats, folks, that's $8.33 per month. Now, I get that some of you will say "you don't upgrade that much" - but REALLY? You didn't buy an Intel Mac yet? Or, you just have no use for "Healing Brush" anyway? "Vector Text Doesn't Matter to me". Give me a break.
Two pretty awesome pieces of software, always up to date, for $10 per month is a pretty good deal in my book.
You're under the impression that you need to buy all the upgrades for it to run on an intel mac? Think about that.
That's $1200 over 144 months. Congrats, folks, that's $8.33 per month.