Adobe, you screwed up… BAD.

These people are simply (after the fact) seeing the benefits of the Creative Cloud model, which they likely originally disregarded as viable. Now, they are jealous. I am glad I immediately saw the benefit this model would provide me. I am thrilled to have access to a feature-set I would have otherwise been unable to afford.

I have been upset with Adobe in the past for other things (such as ceasing development of software that were core to my business without releasing an alternative, pricing software outside the budgets of the average person, and so on). However, this is one time I can actually say BRAVO to Adobe for thinking outside the box and providing get customers with immense value for a fair price.

I’m sorry not everyone feels this way, but I for one am thrilled and hope this is effort if hugely successful for Adobe so that they will continue it indefinitely.

pay more to get what you have got earlier for less.

[Or, to put it a more factual way, you get more than what was available earlier, at a radically lower barrier to entry. --J.]

and the morons think it´s a good idea….

I worked around “package” features in AI for 10 years, it won’t kill me to wait for that. I’ll survive using the clipboard to extract images from AI like I always have. As long as bugs get posted to all paying customers I’m OK.

Maybe Adobe is going for the casual user (in bulk) and enticing them with exiting (or not) features. I don’t know or care about the business theory at Adobe. Agency and self-employed design pros can wait them out.

So this dot release for all makes me feel better about buying the non-monthly CS6. Thanks for releasing them.

If so, it would seem that a lot of the hue and cry accusing Adobe of abandoning corporate customers would be moot. If not, it’d be a good way to quell folks. and perhaps Adobe could consider it.

[You're unironically right. --J.]

For those who aren’t getting these “extras” now because they decided the perpetual lisence was right for them*, you do realize you weren’t going to be seeing these feature until the next paid upgrade whether Creative Cloud existed or not, right?

It isn’t like your copy of CS6 now suddenly doesn’t do what they promised when you spent your thousands of dollars on upgrades and it isn’t as if they are removing features.

*I felt the perpetual lisence was still the way to go for me so I’m not getting these features either but as long as these new things being added don’t result in compatibility issues with saved files I need to open in my horribly outdated copy of CS6, I fail to see how Adobe has wronged me in any way, here. Maybe someone can express in practical terms about what is going on now to explain what is wrong without involving irrational knee-jerk reaction and without hypothetical theory of how this will impact what may or may not happen in the future. A school teaching it without these features I can understand being a problem (although those educational discounts are pretty sweet) but what about typical users? Am I missing something?

Good luck for Adobe explaining big customers paying hundred thousands of dollars that they cannot have the latest greatest things because they were not on the right licensing train.

Subscription is not a good option for everybody, like car leasing is not, offering both is great, forcing users to move to one is bad.

I’ve been advocating for Creative Cloud since early. It really does seem a good deal for most. I just wish I didn’t feel ripped off now.

Re: the comment from PECourtejoie…c’mon, really? Why do I get new features with updates to all other software I’ve purchased? Are other software companies rampant law breakers? I doubt it.

I’m just not getting the Cloud message and judging from comments on the NAPP Forum where I wondered aloud about the Adobe cloud concept, it is clear that other people feel that Adobe are getting it very badly wrong this time round.

I am convinced that the iron fist in a velvet glove concept is just not going to work and my sense of brand loyalty is now being seriously challenged. This is a great pity because I just love my Adobe software, your blog and most of what comes with Adobe products including a strong sense of belonging.

But….sorry….the cloud model just isn’t for me and as a ‘standard user’ I’m feeling disenfranchised and I’m also starting to get that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. We’re taking in water….make for the lifeboats!

Richard