The cost for the Creative Cloud Team Ready (CCTR) is $840 retails (US Market ONLY). Depending where you are based the CCTR can be priced for you. You can send me your details and I can surely help you in getting the prices for CCTR.

It’s bad enough they add an extra 30-50% on top of the US price in Australia (for nothing – those vultures: so I buy through a USA PO redirect box which costs next to nothing)

A lot of people I know only get every second upgrade, or sometimes people aren’t in a position to financially fork out for a while after release due to LIFE circumstances beyond their control. The fact you are left with NOTHING if you don’t re-subscribe is DISCRACFUL at best.

You may be in a position to throw money to the wind, but some of us have families and work from home and just can’t JUSTIFY an upgrade as quite often the upgrades aren’t worth it. (eg Dreamweaver put jQuery touch stuff in, but most people use Sencha Touch?? weird, but unneccessary upgrade to CS5.5, so I waited to 6 to upgrade (which I did through USA purchase to circumvent Adobe’s money laundering scheme in Australia)

Seriously Nate, you have one very limited view of the world, and sounds like you are overpaid, and given CS at work for free.

I hate to break this to everyone, but I had a long talk with one of the Adobe Support Reps two weeks ago about my concerns about the Creative Cloud, and how I felt about Adobe Edge only being offered to Cloud Members. The representative confirmed to me that Adobe Edge will in fact remain exclusive to the Creative Cloud, and that everyone will have to learn to except the Cloud Membership because Adobe has concrete plans to make the entire Creative Suite Cloud only and do away with “Boxed” Licenses. He said Edge is just the first step toward Adobe’s final goal to make future Creative Suites cloud subscription only.

After hearing this I politely told the Adobe Rep that if Adobe makes the entire Creative Suite Cloud Only I will mot definitely have to look for alternatives to the Adobe software. The Adobe Rep then told me that Adobe would be very sorry to hear that one of their loyal customers be turned away, but that cloud subscriptions are the future and that many other companies are doing the same thing and that I should not be surprised that Adobe is following in the same trend.

In my opinion, this is very disappointing to hear, especially coming directly from an Adobe employee.

On the ‘no wifi in the woods’ scenario, I think you have to connect at least once in 30 days, it probably checks everytime you boot up and restarts the 30 days from then I can’t believe it’s a small window of opportunity otherwise you’re out.

One thing I’m not a huge fan of is the Typekit subscribers-only model. If you decide to cancel your subscription, or should your subscription expire, then all of your fonts on every website you ever built using Typekit revert to their “fallback” fonts. Even if you’ve spent (potentially) thousands of dollars for their services. Essentially, once you start, you can’t stop or you suffer rather dire consequences. That’s just an ugly way to treat your customers, IMHO.

[Sorry, I know the terminology is confusing. Page 2 of the PDF says that Typekit is included in "Adobe Creative Cloud Team" (middle of page), not "Creative Cloud Team Ready" (top of page). --J.]

The thing ballooning in price isn’t a concern to me, if it ever plays out where it’s not economical I’ll be back to boxed versions – I don’t care much about the cloud storage etc..

In the end it’s not as though this is exclusive, it’s just an option; we’re able to choose as we like and as such, imho, there is only upside.

Resellers are getting shafted by not being able to sell subscriptions. It’s bad enough that here in Australia, Adobe’s online store handles the transactions from Ireland so that Adobe are immediately 10% cheaper than the reseller channel (because there’s no GST) and now long-term clients who have been a steady revenue stream for both the reseller channel and Adobe are going with subscriptions, leaving all the revenue in Adobe’s basket.

It’s also a big unknown for end-users who purchase a subscription and after some period of time they don’t have the budget to keep paying for the subscription. Does this immediately end their use of all of the Creative Suite software?

The positive benefits is that it’s easier to forecast costs as it’s a fixed monthly fee – however business can already do this through volume licensing and software maintenance. It’s also a vastly lower up-front cost and lower on-going cost than purchasing Creative Suite + software maintenance.

John would be correct, Adobe has introduced a number of new apps as subscription in the last year. (Revel and Adobe DPS are in there as well.) Frankly the fear seems pretty rational. The subscription is a much better deal for Adobe, and it would make sense that they would want to transition everyone to it.

(and admittedly, some apps require ongoing backend services, so there is some argument for requiring subscriptions.)

I completely agree that this could be easier for businesses to manage on a monthly basis, although, if you’re bringing “responsibility” into the mix as criteria, wouldn’t it be more responsible to choose a less expensive option for your company and plan your budget to account for yearly upgrades?

/side note
Adobe is throwing the kitchen sink into this deal to make it attractive right now. How long until there’s Creative Cloud Standard $49.99 and Creative Cloud Premium $79.99? As our friend Darth Vader says “Pray that I don’t alter it further…”

[Yes--and now it'll allow mixing one Mac with one PC (something you can't do with a boxed copy). --J.]