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

Well, adobe, you lost another customer to your new creative cloud model. Well done. I've been planning to buy photoshop for years, and I wish I'd done it before you pulled this antagonistic move, but I was saving my money... little did I know that you were planning to make all access transient and continually expensive. I'm not spending money to just rent it. If I pay for a product, I want to be able to get permanent access to the software: your new model has no benefit for me whatsoever and in truth is inconvenient in every conceivable way. If no one's pointed this out to you yet, you've totally alienated anyone who uses your software casually, and you've made it as hard as possible for anyone who doesn't continually have access to spare money each month, which is basically the calling-card of artists (ie, people who want to buy your product, in case you didn't know that either). Pity so many of your potential customers are also young students who are already in debt... I wonder what other products are out there? Because no way am I doing this. Guess I'll go do my research and spend my money somewhere else. Too bad: I've always wanted to get photoshop for myself. I've got no doubt there are plenty of people who feel like this who *aren't* taking the time to log onto your website and tell you so. If you care about anything other than making as much money as possible off of each individual customer, you should listen.

Being a new photographer, I was a potential customer until I found out about the cloud exclusivity. I can understand how this would benefit the professional, but for us amateurs, $50/month is a lot. People like me have to save and budget to spend the money on a persistent license of Photoshop and Lightroom, and use it for 2 or 3 versions. I don't have the disposable income to use on a monthly fee.

Sorry I'm not rich enough for you, Adobe. I think we could have had a special thing, you and I.

I'm extremely disappointed about Adobes monopistic attitude to the market and the greed in moving everyone to creative cloud.

I am a professional. I have been paying for photoshop every 2 versions for 5 years. You will not see a single penny from me for creative cloud.

I buy software for features and improvements, not access.

Adobe moved from business ally to business threat in one move.

Adobe products will still be available for Photoshop and Lightroom as both box and as electronic download.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if it moved this way. PS doesn't necessarily worry me too much if it went to the cloud. The version I am on is more than enough for my needs, but LR definitely would. I can't see how they would do a payment model for LR. LR doesn't have many advances in each minor release, mainly camera support and minor bug fixes. The £60 upgrade cost hardly warrants going to the cloud, and I'm not paying cloud prices just to get LR thrown in for "free".