Be Excellent To Each Other

As I predicted, Adobe have killed off the concept that you buy software from them. They now want you to lease it from them every month:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/06/adobe_kills_creative_suite_for_cloud/


Just breathtaking really. All those poor sods who struggled to scrimp the cash together to get CS suite and who didn't upgrade every year (the kind of punters Adobe hated) now forced to cough up every month.

For people who have a CS3 or newer serial the sub price is £27.34 + VAT per month which works out at about the same price as the old upgrade cost.

If you have CS6, the first year is listed as £17.58 a month. Note that's the first year. More of that later.

If you have no serial the price is a whopping £46.88 a month.

No indication on if that £46 a year goes down after the first year or if the £27.34 will go up to the full £46.

On the upside, from my point of view I'd get access to Dreamweaver and Indesign which I don't currently have.

All in all I'm not sure about the concept of leasing software. After all the Pickford Brothers haven't turned up on my doorstep demanding money every month since 1986 for my copy of Zub.

So... If you have a full copy of CS5, do you still have to pay?

Well.....



If you are saying that your copy is on a C90 dubbed by a friend on his Amstrad twin tape deck, then I must point out that Adobe ask for a valid serial number in the same way they used to validate the upgrades for previous versions.

What if my friend also photocopied the manual so that I now have 300 pictures of very similar aeroplanes with numbers next to them?

But... Surely they can't suddenly start charging me to use software I bought?

I think Chinny means you can't buy an upgrade, you have to lease the upgrade. Or just stick with your version of CS5.

That I can deal with.

No. But you are the kind of scumbag that are between them and $$$$$. How dare you not be on the latest version!

Some interesting posts on El Reg. One poster has worked out that by year 3 of a cloud sub, you'd be paying twice as much as you were previously.

Also Adobe are offering a one time special upgrade price until July for CS6 users..... however there's no software upgrades with it. They are selling you what you already have again! Not such a fucking special offer eh chums?

I'm still using the nice free version of CS2.

That's good until your sent CS6 files to update.

+ CS2 is ancient. Plug ins won't work with it and it cannot harness modern hardware.

I actually still use PS CS1 most of the time. I can't remember the last time I had to work on someone else's files. Macs at work always have the latest version anyway. I don't use any plugins and I'm still using a PPC Mac. I suppose I'll have to upgrade when I eventually get one of them new-fangled Intel things.

Bizarrely they had CS1 for sale in a charity shop for 99p at the weekend, complete with serial key. On the downside its so old Adobe have switched off the activation servers so even though I legitimately own it, I had to resort to a crack to get it licensed.


This is what Adobe officially say on CS2.


Though to be honest the version of Audition I got from their download site works well in Vista and XP, maybe its just Win 7 or later.

What an excellent idea. This will no doubt crack down on piracy like never before.

*sarcasm meter explosion*

Adobe can strongly advise what the fuck they like really . I have an old Mac with an old OS and lots of old software that works perfectly well thankyouverymuch.

Fancy some of that Creative Cloud action? Then BEND OVER AND BE ADOBE'S BITCH!

http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2013/20130508_1a-Adobe-legal-agreement.html

I loved this bit:

People actually bought Adobe software? I thought it's the reason piracy exists. £5000000 for an image editor? NO THANKS.

Lightroom 4 costs just £90 and is the single best thing you can buy for digital photography other than an actual camera itself. And it's not going to be included in their awful cloud idea, thank God, and will remain on the old business model. Its genuinely worth buying. Sure, you can pirate it. I used to use LR3 for a short while on an infinite trial hack, but it was so good I just had to pony up the cash.

I LR4 , it does absolutely everything I need it to do and has never let me down.

Meanwhile over in the land where we use the software to earn our living.........