Adobe Takes 40% Off Creative Cloud All Apps for Your First Year

[guitarman777]

I hate this zero-loyalty to longtime customers thing. Sadly I don’t think it’s going anywhere. Yecch.

 

[uacd]

$35.99 per month

per year & I’ll think😉

Pixelmator has anything I need anyway

 

[MistrSynistr]

Question for the experts who make use of the Adobe suite everyday for their work:
Is it actually reasonable to pay around 600 dollars a year for the service?

absolutely not. My job pays for subscriptions but these prices are insane. The whole bundle should be like $12 a month and Photoshop/Lightroom combo or whatever should be $9.

 

[TheLunaPark]

One of the scummiest companies out there.

 

[randolorian]

It's a trap! Don't fall for it.

 

[avheatherim]

I don’t know different it is these days, but a few years ago when I used the free trial of adobe, the only way to cancel was to speak to a customer rep over live chat who spent literally an hour offering progressively better deals all while I kept copy pasting “I do not want to stay, please stop offering me deals and cancel my trial” to his every message. This was in a Europe too.

It's the same.

 

[Capeto]

Here's a good, up-to-date list of alternatives to Adobe software

 

[nt5672]

Proud to announce that I have been Adobe free since they went to subscriptions. Not interested in being locked in.

 

[Le0M]

I mean if this is how you make money then yes. I.e. I made 200k using it, $600 is totally fine.

Damn bro, 200k a year? What job are you dong, if I may ask?

 

[Le0M]

absolutely not. My job pays for subscriptions but these prices are insane. The whole bundle should be like $12 a month and Photoshop/Lightroom combo or whatever should be $9.

Why is it unreasonable? I'm curious about details

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

One of the scummiest companies out there.

Neck-and-neck with Intuit (Quickbooks).

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

If you don't need industry-standard software (like to send off work to a print shop or such), the Affinity Suite for $165 FOREVER (no subscription) is absolutely great. A few times a year it's half price. Install on as many computers (mac and windows and iPad) as you want. Adobe should do this.

 

[HMI]

Why save only 40% when I can save 100% by using Affinity instead. Adobe doesn’t deserve my business anymore.

 

[Steve01234]

Question for the experts who make use of the Adobe suite everyday for their work:
Is it actually reasonable to pay around 600 dollars a year for the service?

If you can't say yes w/o asking, then its probably not a good expense for you. Notice I didn't say investment.

What you also need to consider is the digital abyss. Its where you loose access to your work - project files ( PP, AE ) or other project assets cant be opened. Before you say install a trial ver for 30 days, what happens when you have a 5 year lapse, want to open that project file and the current app won't open the old file ? then you'll say well just install a ver from 2 or 3 years ago that will open the file, save it, and open with current ver. Ok, good idea as long as those old installers are available, are fully functional, will run on current OS, and *will licenses* to run even in trial mode. In some instances that is not possible and you are SOL. Options of course include saving out projects in final form like XML, or videos /wo titles, all audio tracks to separate tracks / files, but lots of folks don't do that and then it gets ugly when you don't have those files, and your old project file won't open.

 

[bg1419]

I would pay the full price to never have adobe acrobat hijack pdfs on my work pc ever again. **** adobe.

 

[TechTexan]

That's micromanagement on a whole different level. Wow...

How so? Companies have budgets and need to maintain usage and licensing requirements. Doing audits are a normal part of any ITSM. Any licensed SaaS product should have user usage reports. This lets companies know who’s is / is not using the products. In our company we use these type of reports all the time to identify licenses we can free up to give to other users without having to purchase additional licenses. How else should this work? Should the company keep paying for users software who are no longer with the company?

 

[rikki_t]

Question for the experts who make use of the Adobe suite everyday for their work:
Is it actually reasonable to pay around 600 dollars a year for the service?

Consider this, your a designer and you charges £40 an hour in the UK (ok if your lucky you do), so you do 15 hours of work (just under two days) and that's £600, problem solved

 

[s_madushan]

This is the one that you can’t cancel, right? 🤔

 

[e-coli]

Adobe software and services feel absolutely ancient. Acrobat is horrendous. InDesign is a buggy mess in which the entirety of your content routinely just vanishes. Photoshop’s AI features are a joke. After Effects is rapidly losing market share to Houdini. And Illustrator, the crown jewel, feels like it’s from another century after using Figma.

This doesn’t even include Firefly (kill it with fire), and Adobe Stock (mostly AI-generated images).

Adobe is in serious trouble.

 

[TechTexan]

lol. I'm in the admin page now, just download the logs and stop lying to everyone.

It doesn’t show usage. Sure you can see who has a license and what products they have. It does not however show you when they last used them. Which is super helpful for someone who… let’s say only uses adobe acrobat once to edit a pdf and then never uses it again.

 

[tubular]

Billy Preston once sang "Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin." I'd add: forty percent off waaaaay-too-much is still waaay-too-much.

 

[Le0M]

If you can't say yes w/o asking, then its probably not a good expense for you. Notice I didn't say investment.

What you also need to consider is the digital abyss. Its where you loose access to your work - project files ( PP, AE ) or other project assets cant be opened. Before you say install a trial ver for 30 days, what happens when you have a 5 year lapse, want to open that project file and the current app won't open the old file ? then you'll say well just install a ver from 2 or 3 years ago that will open the file, save it, and open with current ver. Ok, good idea as long as those old installers are available, are fully functional, will run on current OS, and *will licenses* to run even in trial mode. In some instances that is not possible and you are SOL. Options of course include saving out projects in final form like XML, or videos /wo titles, all audio tracks to separate tracks / files, but lots of folks don't do that and then it gets ugly when you don't have those files, and your old project file won't open.

SOL = simply out of luck ?

Oh, and the compatibility thing runs a lot people crazy.
If a small company does that, it’s understandable because of their limited resources. But from big companies is just pure negligence and greed.

 

[Le0M]

Consider this, your a designer and you charges £40 an hour in the UK (ok if your lucky you do), so you do 15 hours of work (just under two days) and that's £600, problem solved

That’s still two days work of your life that’ll never come back.
What I meant to ask is, is it worth the price? Or does other much cheaper (or even free) apps do the a great job still?
What’s your view on this?

 

[MichaelDroste]

I left Adobe after CS6 years ago - don’t miss it - will never subscribe - very happy now with Pixelmator and affinity

 

[O.N.Y.X]

It's a trap! Don't fall for it.

„Trap“ is just a synonym for subscription, or was it the other way around?