Does anybody like the idea of CC

I'm just adding my use case to the pool.

I am a independent web developer and budding mobile app developer, I do both graphics and the programming, some months I don't need photoshop, some months its mostly photoshop, the problem is the times I only need Photoshop for minutes or hours here and there, to touch up or make creative changes. So, CC is expensive for me, because I'm not a specialist. ROI for CC is low for me, especially during the touch up phase. Perpetual license isn't cheap I know, but I have the peace of mind where I could decide to maybe upgrade once every n versions, or not, or buy Adobe Illustrator next round, there is a kind of peace of mind there, definitely very flexible.

If Adobe wants to push CC, it doesn't bother me whatsoever, but why kill the old licensing model altogether? Adobe has some of the best tools in the industry, with CC, they seem to only care for (I'll say) the central portion of the creative production industry, it does look like a decent arrangment, but the old licensing model solved the commitement problem for people who aren't full time creative production specialists, where they don't need as many of the tools, and only need these tools some of the time.

I do love my Photoshop CS6 and I very much like Adobe Bridge as a image manager, the UI is a bit dense in parts but ... anyway that's off topic.

Fingers crossed for Adobe bringing back the old licensing model, in addition to their push for the CC model.

I Happen to love Adobe Creative Cloud.

I Think it has Been great for me.

I'm no fan of our upgrade path because the CC.  My guess is Adobe's shareholders like the idea as do 500,000 subscribers.  I think Adobe may fix the file issue everyone is complaining about, but I seriously doubt they will go back to there being upgrades for perpetual license holders.  This is probably a done deal for Adobe and no turning back.  I'm already looking for alternatives no matter if there is a change to this bad decision.  I'm done with Adobe except for Acrobat unless it takes a hike to the CC as well.

It would be fine to have something in between the ‘one-app-abo’ and ‘all-apps-abo’. I use InDesign most and like to have the new 64 bit version very much. Would be nice to have something like the ‘Design Standard or Premium’.

There are some users (mostly "power-users"), who DO like the CC plan, and many make good points, to support their stand. One, X-platform licensing for a single CC subscription, another is the instant and constant updating.

However, it's probably not for everyone - myself included.

Having owned Adobe software for decades, and using much of that to make a nice living, I have been a big supporter, however do not see any advantages to me, with the CC licensing. For maybe the first time in my life, I am glad that I am old, and now retired, and have a perpetual license for CS 6. That will very likely be the end of the game for me.

Were this 2000, I would likely feel differently, and could possibly justify the new scheme. As it is, I will likely just be locked into a "time warp," and go with what I have now, and let others duke it out.

Hunt

I think there is great potential in the Creative Cloud model, for one reason only...

With the prior "perpetual license" model, Adobe's accounting practices forbid them from making any improvements to software that's been released.  They simply CAN'T legally add improvements or features to it.  It CANNOT work differently.

Now, with a subscription membership model:

• Adobe can run development projects that are not locked to the major release cycle, and roll them out to users when they are completed. 

• They can make bugfixes that change the way the product works (a good recent example of that might have been the Crop Tool user interface).

I also have hope that the additional dollars coming in each month will enable funding of projects previously deemed "less important", such as someone going back and updating all the old filters to give them the ability to work on deep data (e.g., 16 or 32 bits/channel), or to improve the quality of the results.  Even to chase ALL the open bugs out of the system.

It's not obvious to people who haven't been in a corporate high tech development environment, but there ARE disadvantages to the business model Adobe has been following, and this may just be the thing that allows them to move up from that.  As a result, the product may become much better.

Call me an optimist... 

-Noel

Well you asked: "Does anybody like the idea of CC".  The short answer is sure.  Adobe likes it more than ever.  It brings in more revenues though it is not proven yet.  This is what they say:

All the tools you love.
Totally re-imagined.

Your favorite tools are about to get even better. Introducing Creative Cloud™ desktop applications, including Adobe® Photoshop® CC and Illustrator® CC. They're the next generation of CS tools. Get hundreds of all-new features. Keep your entire creative world in sync — files, feedback from team members, fonts, settings, and updates. And, as always, your applications live on your desktop, not in a browser and not in the cloud.

Please note when they say "feedback from team members" they also include free support from MVPs on these forums. What will you do without an MVP support?  Please note MVP does not mean "Most Valuable Pig"; nor does it mean "Most Valuable Pirate"  It means "Most Valuable Participator" who gets to your raw nerve to make you disappear from these forums.  We had a guy called Noel Carboni who was a real gent on Photoshop forums and now we have lost him.

I started this discussion http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1208496?tstart=0  to see if a compromise between users and Adobe could be reached.  So far most of it is bitch, although Noel and I are on similar page with an exit strategy when you drop subscription.

There is a LONG discussion thread (nearing 600 messages) in a Premiere Pro sub-forum http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1205851 with "some" people saying they like the Cloud, for various reasons

I don't have an exact number (at least one of the messages in that thread has a count) but my "general" impression is "somewhere between" 10-to-20 percent of people posting to that thread like the Cloud

Of course, like any other forum discussion, there are a few people who are VERY vocal about things, and the rest who are not as vehement about the issue... whatever the current issue

Right now there is a lot of discussion... let's see the level and type of discussion in a month... six months... a year... and then we'll know if the Cloud is a success, or if Adobe has to do like Coke had to do with "new Coke" and the return of "Classic Coke"