Just how greedy is Adobe? [branched]

MaxStart  wrote AGAIN! preventing the consumers from activating older versions of your products (argumentatively because you stopped the Support!) is the worst Adobe has done.

Where did you get that mistaken idea?  Adobe did not stop your ability to use older versions if you wish.   Older products need older computers to run.   If your computer is new and your software is old, you probably have a disconnect because of the new computer, not because of anything Adobe did.

Which perpetual licensed version of Creative Suite do you have?

And which operating system are you using?

PS We don't work for Adobe.  We are mostly product users just like you .

MaxStart  wrote

jane-e

I understand that you are employed of Adobe and you are not going to answer with a reasonable answer (at least from the angry consumers perspective not from Adobe's).

Nope! Jane is a user, earning her living with the tools Adobe provides and helping in her free time and voluntary other users when they have a problem with the software.

As she is doing a great job with this, Adobe recognised her as an ACP. ACPs and MVPs are standard users with deep knowledge of Adobe products.

MaxStart  wrote

AGAIN! preventing the consumers from activating older versions of your products (argumentatively because you stopped the Support!) is the worst Adobe has done.

Nope. When you have a licensed older product from before the subscription model, you are still welcome to use that according to the licensing terms. There is, however, no support anymore and there are no updates any more. Activation is still possible for down to any single version. However, for obvious reasons, some activation servers needed to be taken down and so, to be able to activate very old products you need to contact Adobe: Contact Customer Care !

You may be unhappy with the current situation but fact is that Adobe is doing well with it's current business model and companies like mine are also happy with the subscription model. We expanded all our four initial licenses to the all apps CC subscription. Before we had different licenses for different tasks, requiring to change the Workstation for eg small video editing jobs. In addition we added to more licenses, because it's economical and easy to do.

I understand that some people have problems paying the full price for the Adobe programs and that especially students may have a hard time paying for this, but also the perpetual licenses were not cheap. A full Photoshop license did cost around 1000$ some ten years ago.

Yes, it's not cheap. But Adobe tools are the top tools used in the industry. There are alternatives if you do not do this for a living. But anyone professional needs at least some tools from Adobe, because they are the industry standard.