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Originally Posted by Dennis
Thanks Marc, and how rude of Adobe! 
Sorry to hear of your unpleasant experience with Adobe. It seems that 10 years loyalty and bone fide software purchases counts for nothing with them. 
Cheers
Dennis |
The new pricing model is very attractive for new starters but for the wrong reasons. In the long run it's all about content control and customer retention. On the surface you can access every single app in the CC suite and get 25GB on-going cloud storage for $50/mth or so. That's unreal for a new unlisenced user. But I can see that fee rising in the future.
The file lock is a really insidious tactic. When CS7 was rebranded CC and they changed the one of fee to the monthly subscription you could have CS6 and CC co-exist on the same computer as separate apps (they call them apps now, program might let you think you actually own a licence...
). In the latest CC version they have merged CS6 registration and activation with CC monthly subscription. I suspect they did this so CS6 files are also locked. Anyway any CS6 file using new CC features and saved once in CC will be locked. There is no backward compatibility like some other CS versions in the past, although CS6 to CS5.x worked. I hear you can export from CC to CS6 but you would need a valid subscription. Your files will also lock and CC will go in 'demo' mode whatever that is if you don't connect to the activation server within 30days.
In short it's become a pay-to-rent service but with a controlling hand deep right into your content created with their apps. Basically keep paying or you can't access the authoring files you did with our apps. That's where I don't agree. You still have copyrights over the collapsed finished product when you save as a bitmap but not any PSD file, After Effect or Premiere projects, Illustrator *.ai files or InDesign uncollapsed layered files, etc...
There is also a lot of frustration with syncing between users PC and the files saved on the cloud. Probably load issues. Also Adobe CC storage got hacked twice last week. They apologised and asked their users to quickly change their credentials and 'believed' at this stage no credit card details were leaked.... right.
The credit Card model is new too. I guess they can sting you with a fee if you decide to stop the monthly fee like they did for me. Not much I can do. Very disappointed in all this stuff as I love Adobe products but business has taken a turn for the worst. Big brother tactics.