[Locked] Please, Can't We Just Continue To Purchase Photoshop, not CC, Adobe?

i won't buy PS or any adobe product again, he11 with them!!!!!!!!!!

What Adobe has done is guaranteed that I will never use this product again.  It's a shame.  It really was excellent.

well i can see where you're coming from but i got screwed out of a month to month plan when all they had available was a yearly and now 6 months and i am trying to cancel and will have to pay a $60 cancellation fee!!! WTF ADOBE NOT COOL. Tell us up front and NOT in fine print that there is a cancellation fee big and bold on checkout screen not in the middle of the terms and condition because no one ever freaking reads that. mark me as one VERY UNHAPPY CUSTOMER.

I agree. I am an old timer and started working/digital painting with Photoshop in 1994! If anybody out there has a copy of "Micro Publishing News" published in Northern California 1994 my artwork is in there LOL!   I want to be able to buy a basic version of Photoshop in a BOX. Call me Old Fashioned! I'm now 60 living on a Senior Pension and I CAN'T AFFORD TO PAY A FORTUNE to rent it by the month in the cloud. Grrrr! Is there no end to wealthy companies trying to rip people off?!!!! If I can't buy Photoshop in a box then I will look for another software that does similar things that is available to buy in a physical box. I'd be sad to part ways with Photoshop but I can't do the rent by the month in the cloud thing. SORRY!

I don’t subscribe to Creative Cloud.  Adobe CS6 seems to be the last perpetual license for Adobe products that I’ll ever own.

I’m running a 2009 Quad-core Mac Pro and a 2009 15” Macbook Pro so, I have the CS6 64-bit memory compatibility, with my six-year-old Macs.  I’m not going to have much incentive to upgrade my hardware since my Adobe software migration is at a stand still.  Maybe someday I’ll need to replace my hardware as it fails with age.

Mac OS 10.10x Yosemite has been a nice upgrade these last 12 months.  Perhaps OS 10.11 El Capitan‎ will provide poor compatibility with my aging CS6 apps.

The up and coming generation of creative pros is the big customer for renting CC.  Artists in their 20s and 30s don't find $49.95 per month to be large expense, since paying $69.95 per month for a smart phone plan is no big deal to them.  I'm 54 so, I still see the world through 1990s economics.  I have become as intransigent as my older creative associates who, back in the 2002, would never migrate away from Quark Xpress or Ventura Publisher for the state-of-the-art InDesign CS.

I am only a personal user. I don't use photoshop professionally, though I know a number of people who do, I originally purchased Photoshop outright. Since then, I have changed platforms, PC to Mac, my PC crapped itself and is beyond redemption, and asked Adobe about changing over to the new system. I was told that, as my purchase was more than 12 months old, I would have to purchase photoshop outright again for my new mac. Ok, I kind of get that, but I thought that I might get a discount as an existing customer, nope.

Now, when I go to look at buying it outright again, I need to pay for it month by month. Even if I start at $10 a month (photoshop only), I'm locked into a contract for a year, then if I want to continue using it, I need to pay for it, year after year. I'm sorry, I don't need it enough to warrant paying for it that much.

So, here I am, I own photoshop as a program, I apparently made the mistake of changing computer systems and now I can either buy a crap cheap PC to run the CS that I still 'own', or, pay month by month for a program that I will only use rarely, or say goodbye to Adobe.

Looks, like bye bye Adobe. A shame really, I love using the program too.

I have an interest in digital photography and checked out Adobe Photoshop today.  I wanted to know how much it was going to be as a program as I know editing software isn't cheap.  I noticed it never said anywhere how much it was on the official Adobe webpage and when I went to purchase it I kept getting this Creative Cloud subscription page - which again doesn't answer my question.  I would have really liked to have just bypassed that page altogether and just found out the information I wanted. As a potential new user of the program - I don't know if I will even want the subscription plan even if I love the software - I prefer to buy things outright with no further financial strings attached.   In the end, I just figured "forget it" then went to the Future Shop homepage and did a search for Adobe Photoshop and found the price immediately. 

I am sure that the Creative Cloud subscription plan is awesome.  But as a new user just learning the software I would like to know about that first rather than all these cool add-ons that will cost me so much a month.  Just let me buy the software without all those frills. Then if I choose to want them later I can subscribe and stay updated.

That seems to me an ideal solution - put in a "No thanks, proceed to check-out" option.

As an undergraduate student about to complete his last semester, I have only this to say:

Before the change in business model, it was a foregone conclusion in my mind that I would finally buy Photoshop once I got out into the real world. In fact, I was even about to cave and buy it today until I realized just how much things have changed.

There is security in being able to say that you have paid for something and now own it contractually. I do not want the hassle of having to monitor and calculate the effect of monthly payments. I do not even believe this will be a better deal in the long run.

If this is how it has to be, then I agree with some of the people who posted here. I will seriously look into Photoshop's competitors before I even think about purchasing from Adobe. At best, they are going to get a free trial or two out of me so that I have the experience I need to make that kind of comparison.

Also, I think Creative Cloud is a little tacky overall. But I digress.

we must stand up to this now . its a slippery slope if we don't. I will now look else where for software I can buy even if its not as good. we are the customers and we have spoken.