Adobe have also had their certificates hacked. Not a good thing for a subscription service !!!
http://www.thefirewall.co.uk/news/446/adobe-certificate-hack-highlights-costs-and-risks-of-manually-managing-keys-and-certificates-says-venafi/

DONT BUY SUBSCRIPTION. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WORK FOR HOURS WHILST PAYING A CARELESS Adobe.

Some nasty small print (Adobe can update SW anytime they want, while I am on 3g connection, they will place ads on your website etc), but still, it would be good to have the CS.

Click to buy, sign in and magically price increases to 68 Euros, even though I am in South America.

WTF? I don’t even think this is legal under European law, to charge more than the offer states.
Strange that Piratebay is so popular in Europe, isn’t it?

on the 23rd of April you said : “Yesterday if you wanted to reach tablets via Adobe’s Digital Publishing Solution, the cost was $400 per publication. Soon it’ll be free, for unlimited publications, once you subscribe to Creative Cloud.”

when can we see this happening, this ‘soon’ ? i asked a bit around & Adobe partners here in the Benelux are still talking about the single use & corporate/enterprise subscription prices (and this on top of the CS6 price) !

I have never knowingly pirated software. The companies that develop for us enable us to earn our livings, I admire that and am always thankful. I am more than willing to pay for the work done – everyone has to survive.

What I OBJECT to, is one company buying up the competition and then stitching us up like retarded kippers and inflating prices.

When I upgraded from CS3 to CS5 Adobe in the UK lied to me saying that a U.S. version would not work in the UK. Dissatisfied with that answer and thinking I was being lied to, I telephone Adobe in the U.S. and asked: if I purchased a U.S. upgrade for a previously registered U.K. version would it work? “If you give me your serial number sir, I’ll check for you” came the helpful reply. IT WORKED, I then bought CS5 at half the price of a ‘proper’ U.K. version via Amazon Marketplace (because Adobe of course made sure I couldn’t buy at U.S. prices) and we were getting nearly $2 to £1 at the time. Heard the standard guff about translations and logistics/distribution/staffing when I complained, none of their arguments stand, especially if you’re downloading.

They just want to make money.

All you guys in the U.S. be thankful for the prices you get, they’re much, much, much cheaper than any other territory.

I’ve given up on Dreamweaver, bloated and clunky – use Coda or MacFlux instead – both quite brilliant.
I’m now seriously considering the Gimp.

And I long for Freehand to be released from the clutches of Adobe, I now have to use Illustrator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arghhhh!
Whilst some of it is good there’s a whole lot of rubbish in there, and features that even now, are sadly lacking that Freehand had years and years ago.

At first glance The Cloud seemed a good idea, but on investigation it’s not looking so good, even with the introductory pricing.

AND QUITE FRANKLY I JUST DON’T TRUST ADOBE. ONCE THEY HAVE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF USERS ON BOARD THEY’LL RAMP UP THE PRICES AND THERE’LL BE NOWT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.

Put that into perspective. Who wants to pay 28 percent extra year after year, not gaining the right to keep the software?

I would be a more loyal customer if not for overpricing.

So here is a suggestion to the subscription model. Users gain the right to keep the software at the end of the one year contract.

$50 vs. $64 at the current conversion rate, tax excluded.

That’s 28 percent overpricing!

Are there any other software companies out there with an overpricing stragegy?

Old school

But sometimes they DO add up. Let’s say you’re a freelancer and you mainly work in Photoshop, but you need Illustrator occasionally for certain projects. Then it’s a lot cheaper to only pay for Illustrator the couple months out of the year that you use it, instead of buying a full copy.

Or say you’re a design consulting agency. It might be nice not to pay for a fixed number of seats… if you’re paying per month (or even per year), you could save money by adding temporary seats when you get a big contract, and dropping them later when unneeded.

Also, the cloud option includes a lot of fringe benefits: Lightroom, online storage, etc. If you normally pay for Master Collection AND Lightroom AND Dropbox AND Typekit, and you could replace all four with the Adobe subscription… do the numbers start to add up then?

So I got my VISA, sat down at my computer and was ready to order. But by the time I got to checkout, the $49.99 were equiv of $68. And that was before VAT. It’s actually such a good price that I might even have ordered it still if I didn’t know that price was significantly boosted for no apparent reason. Well, if my money isn’t good enough that’s ok, I’ll take them elsewhere where I’m not expected to subsidize americans.

After all these years, I believe Adobe is the only major software company still differentiating like this. I guess it’s good to have market dominance.

Oh well, you almost got it right this time. I’ll give you for the effort.

What really hasn’t been made clear about the subscription model, I feel, is the importance of continual updates and why that makes a difference. When they release a new edition of the suite, all the individual product teams have to work on a single timetable. If the Photoshop team, or the InDesign team can’t implement a particular feature by the overall release date, they have to hold off on it until the next cycle. But it might be ready a couple months later, and (especially given how fast technology is changing right now) it might be really important. A product team can push that feature out right away, without waiting for the next major release.

Another big plus is the ability to add a few extra seats of an individual product or suite on a temporary basis, for a specific project, without having to buy full product licenses. That can seriously affect the economics of a small design shop by keeping costs and price down.

Creative Cloud membership comes with some very practical and worthwhile (and potentially lucrative) value-adds. It’s a great option for many people. Naysayers to the contrary, it does indeed lower the price of entry for the newcomer, which is no bad thing.

Adobe isn’t exactly extorting any money from you, rather than selling you tools you need for a moderate price. Even if you get the whole Creative Suite or Cloud membership, the cost is about a double shot latte per seat per working day. That’s an excellent value.

As a former design business owner in the sweet 1990s, I remember the days of buying every piece of software separately. And paying 3k euros for a single QuarkXPress Passport license.

I don’t miss those times. : )

-Tommi