Will Adobe Creative Cloud price become less expensive in the future?

[jasonu17653899]

Will Adobe Creative Cloud price become less expensive in the future? At the moment $29.99 a month for a year is reasonable price for CC subscription for current suite owners. Once the $29.99 promo ends, I can't afford $49.99 a month once the year is over.

[cakeobear]

Yes. I am talking about the Black Friday deal... In order to get $39.99, I have to cancel my subscription first, otherwise, the renewal is $49.99.

[Mr_dig_dig]

I just didn’t renew and after 2 or 3 months they sent me an offer of 29 a month.

I was using (and loving) the Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, and their betas, so decided to just not renew with Adobe. After about 2 months they started sending lower offers to rejoin. By month 3 it was back to 29.99 and so I figured I would switch back for awhile at that price. If more people do that I think they eventually will end up at that price again for everyone. Affinity is pretty sweet though, and much faster over all. I am really looking forward to when it is a no brainer to just go 100% Affinity.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

Good luck and let me know if it works for you too.

- Rob

[cakeobear]

hmmmm I wonder if I should risk it and don't subscribe it at all... I kinda need to use CC for my freelance work. I don't know if I can wait for a few months.. even I get $29.99 deal, that's just for a year right? Do I have to do that every year? lol

I am not familiar with Affinity. I think I need Adobe stuff for my work...

[Mr_dig_dig]

BTW, your account will still be on Adobe as well so you won’t loose anything while you are away for a few months.

- Rob

(Another reason to really hate the cloud… lol)

[ruslana39589591]

For some reasons Adobe has different prices to the same products.

If I open Creative Cloud: https://creative.adobe.com/en/plans?store_code=gb the price for for "All Apps + Adobe Stock" is £60.58 but

If I open Adobe Stock: Adobe Stock pricing and membership plan | Adobe Stock the price for the same "All Apps + Adobe Stock" is £50.48.

Is you select Adobe Stock and then choose do add Creative Cloud then it's cheaper by more than £100 per year if you do the vice-versa.

[S K A S S I S]

Adobe subscription fee adjustment

Adobe could convert more would-be part-time users into Adobe customers to fill in a wide gap in Adobe sales. Creative Cloud rates could be based on users’ software usage per month rather than a flat subscription rate for non-corporate customers.

Many users use it occasionally right now but they still need it. They hope to increase their business usage as they get more and more customers, but they truly can’t afford the current subscription rates. the model could be based on an initial-use fee AND a per-day fee, as needed.

To build this model, lets say we start with a $60 per month subscription rate for part-time users (to make the math easier) / 30 days (per month) = roughly $2.00 per day

The initial-use fee could be $2 for initial app use for a particular month.

the per-day fee could be $1, and would kick in with each additional day of use for a particular program.

In other words, a $2 first time per app use per month, and a $1 per day per app use for each additional day of use, with a total dollar cap maxed at the max monthly rate—in this case $60.

Increased usage by the part-time user community should theoretically translate or convert into a professional income, which will make the normal monthly corporate subscription rates (currently $49 per month) more attractive, now that the user is actually seeing income from the use of Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Make sense?

here is the EXAMPLE in action:

Ps is used on day one, which activates the subscription with a $2 initial fee (purchased right in the app with credit card up front--no need for a visit to the Adobe site)---day seven Ai is used incurring a $2 initial fee---day 12 Id and Ai are used for a $2 initial fee for Id and $1 repeat-use fee for Ai---day 19 Ps-Ae-Pr are used for a $2 each initial fee for Ae and Pr and $1 repeat-use fee for Ps---day 25 Ps used for $1 repeat-use fee. on day 30 billing occurs for the total: $13 for the use of Photoshop 3x, Illustrator 2x, InDesign 1x, After Effects 1x, and Premier 1x.

It might look like this on Adobe's subscription page.

NOTE: The Part-Time User rate is not an official Adobe rate. It is used hypothetically, to generate ideas.

[dedwardc]

When companies are publicly traded on the stock market, they have to kowtow to investors, who want their stock prices to go up continuously. For the company, this means that simply making the same profit every year is not enough -- even if it is a huge profit. That profit must increase for their stocks to increase in value. In order to do that, there are two things a company can do: 1. Decrease expenses (ex. cut customer service rep jobs and have volunteers answer questions on forums); 2. Increase revenue by increasing the price or increasing the number of customers.

[Jim_Logan]

I just got nailed $70 per month for three CC subscriptions.  Because we are a business we pay more - this is ridiculous.  I struggle to meet payroll, just laid off several people, but the ADOBE giant can suck more out of our pocket.  Some of my competitors are also businesses with federal tax ID numbers, several employees, and who pay corporate income tax, but because they only need one CC license, they pay a lower rate.  This is simply not fair.

[pierBover]

Jim Logan wrote:

I just got nailed $70 per month for three CC subscriptions.  Because we are a business we pay more - this is ridiculous.  I struggle to meet payroll, just laid off several people, but the ADOBE giant can suck more out of our pocket.  Some of my competitors are also businesses with federal tax ID numbers, several employees, and who pay corporate income tax, but because they only need one CC license, they pay a lower rate.  This is simply not fair.

I pay about half of that for just 1 subscription so you are getting a better deal than most...

[pswayf]

What they don't realize is that Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer have created amazing and perhaps superior programs equivalent to photoshop and illustrator. For $50. Not a month, just once. I'd like to see more people switch over and support them. I already prefer to use their intuitive and sensical interface over adobe. The only reason I'm tied to the cloud right now is for my portfolio site, but they just raised my rate too 😠

Go get it! Affinity - Professional creative software for Mac

[pierBover]

The truth is that today Affinity software is not on par with Adobe software. I bought Photo and Designer a year or so ago, and while there are some very innovative features, Affinity still lacks bread and butter stuff like a proper eye dropper, an isolation mode like Illustrator, or even decent text editing tools.

But, give them a year or two and I can see myself and a lot of people in graphic design, UI, photo retouching, and illustration, moving away from Adobe. Specially considering Affinity software can open Illustrator, Photoshop, and legacy Freehand files.

Also, Affinity is about to release Publisher, which is an InDesign replacement.

Video guys and motion graphics people will still need Premiere and After Effects though.

Adobe will have to step up its game. Not only in pricing but also in listening to the needs of their customers.

Honestly I couldn't care less about cloud gimmicks and mobile apps. I don't understand why Adobe is investing so much effort in those things. There are a number of feature requests in these forums that have been requested for years and Adobe ignores our petitions. For example making the nodes in Illustrator for editing vector curves bigger, being able to zoom to 100% in place (instead of moving the viewport to the last used artboard), being able to rotate the workspace in Illustrator while drawing like you can in Photoshop, Metal support in OSX, and a very long etcetera.

[tasagraf]

Seriously!!! I'm really sad now with the prices. I have subscription for the teachers/students, so i have discount whit that. But even with that, monthly price high for me now. I'm teacher btw, when Adobe started CC monthly paying system, i was have some hope for the students also, since they can cost too in the future even maybe Adobe make lower prices for them. BUT it's not seems gonna happen, or at least going dark with the higher prices.

Also i want to share my opinion with this situtation. Here in Turkey, unfortunately most of people using pirated applications. Students not earning money with these programs yet. They just learning and experiencing, also life standarts not so well here so paying extra high price thing that they not going to choose. With that you leading them to other ways.

Anyway, it's sad experiencing this, but i'm also quitting on my personal CC acount now.

Now i guess i will feed my hopes for the open source apps, since no real rival in the market for Adobe.

[pursaa]

I would like to see more postings about other software we can use other then adobe.  I like Adobe software but it is way too expensive to you.  People and businesses  need to stop paying for these out rages prices to use their softer.  Let's start posting other option and help these other smaller companies get bigger.  We can use Corel or Sarif, wondershare.  It is up the the people to show Adobe they are charging too much.  I use a lot of the old adobe software but I will not pay their subscription price.  I don't use all of then at once but I do use then all at different times.  We should have an option to by the software out right or rent it.  Ado be has lost me as a customer as well.

Stop paying for the subscription and they will have to figure something else out.  Like making the software more affordable.  But if everyone keeps paying for it then they won't do nothing because they are making billions of dollars.

[Nancy OShea]

I would like to see more postings about other software we can use other then adobe.

It depends on what you need.  But I can't think of one single contender that comes remotely close to Photoshop.

Stop paying for the subscription and they will have to figure something else out.

If everyone stopped paying for software, there would be no software worth having.  And the people who make the terrific products you use would  have no job.  And the company that hires those talented people would go out of business resulting in more lost jobs.  And finally the crooks who pirated the software would disappear for lack of any new products to copy.

Nancy