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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

30$ per month was already above what I expected to pay for CC considering my use. 50$? No way Adobe. I'm not paying 600$ per year for software I don't own. I use 2 applications from CC regularly, 4 at most. It doesn't make sense to pay 50$ a month perpetually for a ton of software I don't use. And the 20$ per software is simply ridiculous considering nobody uses only 1 software, and the photographer kit costs 10$.

For comparison, Affinity software costs less than 1 month of the CC subscription. And it's yours forever with updates. Autodesk offers a 20$ per month plan for their new game dev kit, and you get 3 massive software (Stringray, Scaleform Studio, Maya LT). Unity3D offers a free license for people making less than 100,000$ per year. Even Microsoft Office costs 10$ per month and you get all their suite.

50$ per month could make sense for someone using all the Adobe applications, but that is a niche case, and we are forced to pay for that if we want to use more than 2 applications. Even 40$ per month for 2 applications is ridiculous.

To add more wood to the fire, Adobe continually ignores the needs of their customers and adds gimmicks we don't need. How many feature requests have been sitting for years in those forums ignored by Adobe? Cloud services and iPad apps? I have not seen even 1 professional using those. Flash Pro is dead, Dreamweaver is useless compared to other real coding tools like Sublime Text, and the new GPU rendering in Illustrator is simply terrible for graphic designers that work with text all the time.

Unless Adobe offers more flexible options and more competitive prices I'm out of CC too. I will not renew my subscription that ends next month.

I'm a full time designer and do freelance on the side. Adobe just gave me notice that the monthly fee will go up to $49.99 a month plus tax/vat which will be well ofter $50. I do have the cloud at work and at home and I own CS5.5 and CS6. Quite frankly, working in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, Acrobat and Dreamweaver primarily I have to say there has not been one update since the 2012 release of CS6 that would have convinced me to upgrade. The cloud subscription has made Adobe lazy, prior they would have to present improvements to convince you to upgrade, now they there's a ton of upgrades that don't give me any workflow improvement but just clog up my download speed. Very sad, I wish apple would buy Adobe. I will certainly not pay over $50 a month. Now I will have to prepare and down-save all my files for CS6 (monumental task). Please don't buy into to the cloud, don't support this madness.

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Personally I find the pricing ridiculous. I only want After Effects and Premiere Pro... maybe Audition if it came in a package, but I don't need it. If I only get those three apps it's £9 pm more expensive than the whole suite... they seem to think that I'd obviously opt for the whole suite, but I'm not paying for the whole thing for the sake of 2-3 apps. Even just the two apps is 87% of the cost of the whole suite for less than 18% of the available apps.  This is ridiculous! If they bundled Audition, Premiere and AE for about £25, that's still 55% of the current price for 27% of the whole suite, so then if I did want the whole bundle for £45 in my mind I'm saving money. It's a win for me and a win for adobe. Right now it's just impossible to justify. I can't believe they don't have more options for what people actually do. I do video, I DON'T CARE about Dreamweaver or Illustrator!

If I go to buy a car from a dealership I don't expect to be forced into renting it for more than it's worth because I get a bicycle and a set of waterskis with it.  This is insane.

$599/year is more than I spend on all other software per year! I'm a one-man software company and I simply cannot afford this. Yes, I spend ~30 minutes a day using Adobe products (Ps, Ai, Id). And I'd pay $99/year or maybe $149/year for the Adobe suite, but never in my wildest dreams would I spend $599/year. The Photography plan ($119/year) almost makes sense, but not for only Photoshop. And adding Illustrator via the "single app" plan would cost $239 additional per year! Insane, indeed. I'm sticking with CS6 and in line with others to jump the Adobe ship as soon as I find a viable option.

Don't be silly, Adobe anything going down in price? This isn't the normal "price goes down with competition" economical model. Adobe, has no competitors (at least anyone who can hurt their progress). The prices will NOT surely go down, but UP! Now that the sheep have flocked to this new way of creative cloud CONTROL, you will have not choice but to pay what they demand. There are no alternatives, no competition, etc. We have fed the corporate monster and now we are seeing that it's still hungry. Investors don't care about creative anything unless it's a "creative" way for them to make money (they surely nailed it here). They have done this by using a Adobe as another conduit to fill their pockets. Rich, successful, corporate business types don't get rich by following their emotions or they creative side, they have a mission, a goal and that is to succeed at whatever the cost (in most cases). They don't care about the consumers, because that's what we are, CONSUMERS! We want more, and they give it to us. Much like a drug dealer supplying the junkie. If the price goes up and the product goes down, we still need, we still want it and will do what it take to get it or the lab rat that keeps drinking the cocaine water until it OD's. When businesses, education, careers, projects, etc are built on a platform or the use of it, it's a necessity, disposal IS NOT an option. We are slaves to the corporate "creative" world. Thanks to everyone who has made it that way!

Oh, and for CS6, it is only supported for now. Adobe has made no comment when or IF it will be supported on new operating systems for Microsoft or Apple. I mean, why would they when they can force everyone to the CLOUD??? I guess it will have to do for the next couple of years on OSX Mountain Lion until I'm forced to do a complete upgrade and walk the plank like everyone else. FED UP AND TOTALLY DISGUSTED WITH ADOBE!!! I can see why people bootleg software, what a rip off!!