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

[Avidos1]

I left the adobe suite a long time ago, once they moved to rental. I have other apps that do the same job at least for my needs and cost a fraction of the price.

 

[Avidos1]

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.

Printers went pdf years ago, so other than them needing to edit I don’t find it an issue, they charge a lot for editing anyway so better doing it yourself and resending pdfs if you missed something

 

[dlondon]

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.

I agree. I've always thought that they're charging too much. We currently have the full suite for about a third of our team. Only about half of them get good use out of the package. We'd probably give everyone access if the price was similar to Microsoft 365. We're now looking to switch some of the team to Affinity and only keep Adobe CC for the people that really use it (mainly those who spend most of their time on web, graphics or video).

Why is it unreasonable? I'm curious about details

I suspect most people will use just a few of the Adobe CC apps but once you have individually subscribed to 2 or 3 apps, you're paying for more than the entire suite.

We pay around £900 a year for the full Adobe CC suite in the UK. Affinity offers the equivalent of Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator – which is what most of my team uses on Adobe – for a one-off cost of £159 (full price). Even if we upgraded every time a new version comes out, that would only be £159 every two years or so (they're currently on V2 of their apps).

 

[Biro]

SOL = simply out of luck ?

That’ll work. But the accepted translation is “s**t out of luck.”

 

[JohannesO]

For all you guys that use just InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop, Affinity is awesome.
You should buy it for the Studio Link feature 👇 alone - you'll never want to use another app suite that doesn't have it!

This Video is 5+ years old and today the V2.6 apps have way more features like machine learning selection that works offline.

 

[TechTexan]

I agree. I've always thought that they're charging too much. We currently have the full suite for about a third of our team. Only about half of them get good use out of the package. We'd probably give everyone access if the price was similar to Microsoft 365. We're now looking to switch some of the team to Affinity and only keep Adobe CC for the people that really use it (mainly those who spend most of their time on web, graphics or video).


I suspect most people will use just a few of the Adobe CC apps but once you have individually subscribed to 2 or 3 apps, you're paying for more than the entire suite.

We pay around £900 a year for the full Adobe CC suite in the UK. Affinity offers the equivalent of Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator – which is what most of my team uses on Adobe – for a one-off cost of £159 (full price). Even if we upgraded every time a new version comes out, that would only be £159 every two years or so (they're currently on V2 of their apps).

Exactly, we audit this. If our end users are typically using 3+ it’s cheaper to give them then CC suite license.

 

[FelixDerKater]

Set it and forget it. Don't forget to forget to cancel to stick with the program.

 

[Le0M]

That’ll work. But the accepted translation is “s**t out of luck.”

Got it! Thanks 😂

 

[constantsnags!]

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?

Sadly, IMO…yes, if only for the lack of time wasted learning alternatives and trying to brute-force them into doing everything you need. The AI debacle and loss of Pantone swatches (not Adobe’s fault) as well as being forced into a sub model are a few of the main downsides.

 

[TechTexan]

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

Just following up on this. Again there is no admin page that shows usage. “The Adobe Admin Console currently does not offer a feature to track individual usage of Creative Cloud apps, including details about the frequency or duration of software usage by licensed users. While there are reports for license usage and assignment, granular usage data isn't available within the console. If you're interested in this functionality, you can submit a feature request to Adobe”