Steve, I'm with you. I used to be a huge Adobe fan. I have loved and praised Adobe software far and wide. It's not cheap, but it is very capable and works very well. Now, I find myself hating Adobe. I'm not just disappointed with the CC subscription model, I'm fuming. I complain about it every chance I get. I've started or participated in threads all over the Web. I've complained to friends. I've bored my wife to tears with my lamentations. Just yesterday, I fired off a letter to the editor of PC World in response to the current issue's article on subscription software. I am not happy.
Like you, I have no intention of subscribing to CC. EVER. I have happily (well... relatively) paid around $400 per year to upgrade my existing CC software. I have bought every CS version upgrade. But I will not pay $600 per year for the rest of my life to keep access to my existing files-- or to gain access to just one new feature above what I already have. It looks like CS6 is my last version. It's pretty darned good. So it's not much of a sacrifice. I apologize for helping this topic spill into the FrameMaker arena where, so far, the subscription model has not been forced on us. Hopefully, Adobe won't also make that bad decision or they will find that they have lost the last bit of their revenue stream from me. Return the upgrade path option to CS6! Boycott CC until Adobe relents. Mike Wickham On 7/12/2013 5:46 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > I have just had a software vendor ring me to enquire about my future software > needs, and to extol the virtues of Adobe's 'creative cloud', which she had > just finished training up on. > > Boy did she get more than she was bargaining for ;-) > > I pointed out that I had been planning to upgrade (with full version purchase > in many cases due to the age of my versions), at least Illustrator, > Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, Fireworks and Flash (I have already > upgraded FrameMaker), but that Adobe no longer has anything to sell me. She > then asked me what alternatives I was planning, and I responded that as there > were no credible alternatives to many or all of these, I was considering > retirement as an option. > > The idea that I would have to pay Adobe for the rest of my life to retain > access to legacy material does not appeal, to say the least. > > I know this has been aired here before, but I just needed to let off steam.
