Adobe Animate: End of Life and Support Timeline

I am litrarally animation on it for a feature film right now and have worked on many series and adverts using it. Your disregard for paying customers is astounding. 

I have one question with regards to the support timeline. It starts with “Existing Animate users may continue to use the application. “ Does this continue beyond the support deadline of March 1 2027/2029? Or will the application be blocked from even booting up after these dates?

In short, can I open Animate beyond any of these end dates? 

I’ve used Flash/Animate for over 20 years - it’s been the basis of my professional career. I’ve made BAFTA winning films using it. The main reason I have subscribed for so many years to the Adobe suite is for Adobe Animate. If it goes, so shall I - I will have to find alternatives which won’t be easy. My workflow is based around Animate. Such a short sighted decision. At least make it open source. Let the people who’ve used it and continue to produce amazing work with it have access to it.

Ich entwickle seit 2000 mit Flash / Adobe Animate und seit 2011 iOS-Kinder-Bildungsapps mit Animate + AIR.
Über 90 Flashgames und 25 Apps im App Store – viele davon werden weltweit in Schulen eingesetzt.
Lehrer, Eltern und vor allem Kinder sind glücklich damit. Die Apps funktionieren. Sie erfüllen ihren Zweck.

Und jetzt will Adobe ab 2026 Entwicklung UND Support komplett einstellen und es soll nicht mehr möglich sein, die aktuellen Projekte zu öffnen.

Ganz ehrlich, Adobe: Wie stellt ihr euch das vor?

• Schul-Apps, die nicht mehr gepflegt oder aktualisiert werden können

• Jahrelange Bildungsprojekte, die technisch „verwaisen“

• Entwickler, die ihr über Jahrzehnte begleitet habt, einfach fallen lassen

Das sind keine alten Spielereien – das sind laufende, genutzte Bildungsangebote mit realem Mehrwert.

Es gibt keinen brauchbaren Migrationspfad, keine echte Alternative, keine Verantwortung für Bestandskunden.
Nur die unausgesprochene Botschaft: „Danke fürs Abo – fang halt neu an.“

Technischer Fortschritt ist das eine.
Aber eine komplette Entwicklergeneration und funktionierende Bildungssoftware einfach abzuschalten, ist kein Fortschritt –
das ist ein massiver Vertrauensbruch.

Adobe beendet hier nicht nur ein Produkt.
Adobe verspielt Vertrauen.

Why not open source it???? Animate is such a great ANIMATION tool. I would say one of the kind and you are killing it! Pure nonsense. Is this AI takeover?

Is this happening because you cant cram Ai into it?!!!!! Please reconsider. Or leave it open sourse which means zero cost to you.

불법 복제판 안 쓰고 적법한 저작권 윤리 의식을 준수하기 위해 오랫동안 본 회사에 사용료를 지불해온 소비자들이 더 이상은 레거시 버전도 다운로드를 못 하게 막고 fla 파일도 실행하지 못하도록 쳐막으려는 행위는 좀 정말 멋지고 환상적인 경영 마인드네요.

This is such depressing news. I have been using the program since early 2000s, when it was called flash. I stil use it. The program is easy to use and learn. I hope adobe changes their minds and realize how special this program is to many animators. 

This news is beyond devastating, and suggests to me that either Adobe have no idea what this tool means to its community of users, or they know, but they're simply not interested.

You do not offer any single tool that replicates the vector animation environment I have been using since 2000. The fact that I can deliver quality animation so quickly with Animate is the sole reason that no other software has ever really got a look in. My entire animation process is deeply imbedded in Animate's idiosyncrasies. Of course, it is not perfect, but I genuinely don't see what I would use instead at this late stage in my career. 

Flash made animation accessible at the start of my career, and with the removal of its successor, you have once again made it a difficult industry to enter. 

I beg you to consider reversing this decision, or finding a way to make the software available on license to those who depend on it for as long as they continue to need it.

这是一件可怕的事情。出售并继续发展会更好;在手里腐烂真是太浪费了。