Well, I have Master Collection CS5 and CC2017. Sorry, I would feel naked without my perpetual CS5 license and I'm planning to upgrade it to CS6 very soon while I still can. I like the whole idea of not waiting for a major update and putting a couple of grand on the table, but it didn't bother me either. I purchased CS3, skipped CS4, then purchased CS5 Master Collection as soon as it was released. So the argument for the subscription and how it is such a deal, probably doesn't apply to myself or many Master Collection users, because we were only upgrading every other release. Lets say your paying $450 a year for CC, as a comparison from CS4 to CS6 was 5 years 2008 to 2013. You would have paid over $2250 for those 5 years on a CC subscription, and I don't believe upgrading from CS4 Master Collection to CS6 Master Collection would have cost that much, I could be wrong! I'm not saying their aren't any earthshattering cool features in CC, the fact is we would have still gotten them via subscription. Personally, the biggest difference I see is the addition of free plugins in CC, that we had to purchase before. I think the reality that gets lost in all of this is 80% of the people/clients I meet and or do work for are still using CS3. Now that's an interesting question, how big is the actual CS3 install base. It must be quite large because every bookstore you go into, all the adobe help titles are for CS3!
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