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JHillPhD
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October 26, 2025
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Subscription plan changes for price increase

  • October 26, 2025
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I just received an email from Adobe stating the new price from the student plan I was enrolled in. However I graduated 3 years ago and was not using an education discount and paying the full price of $59.99 with illustrator, fresco, and Lightroom being on mobile and the AI features (don't use) they've added since my graduation status was over. I look at the plans and see they changed it to a "pro" version but there's a standard version at $54.99 with taking away both illustrator and Lightroom apps. It's not worth making a $10 increase over moving certain apps around to justify a "pro" version. If they added the substance apps to it which I think would be awesome, that would justify the increase and create better value

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kglad
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October 26, 2025

do you have a question?

JHillPhD
JHillPhDAuthor
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November 1, 2025

Its more of a rant than anything. Increasing the price while adding no value here is the constant reason Adobe is starting to lose trust in their customer base including myself by giving us things a lot of us didnt ask for. They put so much time into AI, where they could have been developing a better XD since they didnt acquire Figma. Theyre choosing to follow a trend instead of being the trend like Affinity

kglad
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November 1, 2025

understood.