P: Ability to buy Photoshop as a perpetual license, instead of Creative Cloud

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March 16, 2013
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I understand from a very reliable source that CS6 and Lightroom 4 will be the last photoshop software that will be available to actually purchase and own. In other words...You will not be able to purchase the software either on a disc or download that is yours to use indefinitely once you purchase the product. It will only be available via the cloud and everyone will be required to pay monthly license fee to use the product. This will allow all upgrades as long as you pay the fee...but if you cease to pay the fee, the software will be deactivated. If this is the case...and I believe it is...THIS SUCKS!

I have been Adobe user since I purchase the CS2 Creative Suite and used lightroom since it's inception. I have not purchase every upgrade, but have done so when I felt the changes warranted an upgrade. If Adobe insists on this business model, I will probably use one of the other photo editing product available on the market. There are several that will do most everything Adobe's software provides. I do not want to change...but Adobe's changes will force me to do so. I will purchase and use software...I WILL NOT "RENT" software which is what Adobe is proposing.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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HA! Good luck with that!

Adobe doesn't care. It's pay them whatever they're charging (about US$10 per month now, but they can change it any time they want) and once you start paying, YOU CAN'T EVER GET OUT.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Perpetual licenses are not being sold for Adobe CC products.
So I guess you can
• either (at your own risk) try to purchase licenses for CS6 products from other sources than Adobe
• or try to amend your company’s policy
• or look into alternative software.

nassiak44451469

Participant

The company which I'm working cannot add Adobe Cloud cause of company restrictions. Can I buy Adobe software without a subscription? I'll need Photoshop, Illustrator and Bridge. latest versions. thank you,

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firecrestphoto

Participant

Nonsense, everyone did that for decades and adobe made lots of money with the initial purchase being well over £600 and upgraded when the photographer wanted to. People take up photography all the time and buy stuff like that. For your information, hammer makers sell hammers all the time, just because most people have got one, doesn't mean they don't sell any more! Your theory would only work if everone lived forever and no one was ever born!

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bob frost

Inspiring

If everyone did that, Adobe would have to charge much, much more for their software or go bust, or both. Just as the hammer-maker would go bust when everyone has a hammer, or switch to making screwdrivers! 😉

Bob Frost

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firecrestphoto

Participant

What if you like the hammer exactly the way it is and don't want to upgrade for several years?

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Apples and oranges. A hammer maker would also not improve the hammer regularly after you have already bought it.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

A lot of lifelong Photoshop users are switching to GIMP or paint.net, which are free and very similar to PhotoShop because of the subscription pricing. Software is merely a tool, like a hammer, a hammer maker would never try to get the customer to pay a monthly fee to continue using the hammer. BAD MOVE ADOBE... I will never buy your products again...

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

Go back to offering software as purchased standalone. Subscription only is a very bad idea and bad for longtime users.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

DUMP THE MANDATORY CC SUBSCRIPTIONS AND GIVE US WHAT WE WANT. PERPETUAL LICENSES!