Casual License for Photoshop and other Adobe Apps

[peter_7624]

I have an idea of a fantastic new license you can offer to people, that use adobe products only rarely. You could charge 1 euro per day for usage of any Adobe apps. For people that use Photoshop few times a year is crazy to pay such a high money for products that they almost never use. Most such amateurs and casual users will install cracked software and they can have viruses because of it. That's bad for them. But you won't earn nothing when users install cracked Adobe apps, so that's bad for you too... So this casual license could have sooo much benefit for causal users and also for you.
I don't want to pay such a crazy amounts for Photoshop, I don't want to install cracked software, it's illegal and it have viruses. Which means I don't have Photoshop install on my PC, I am sad... I once bought it for a month, but I then canceled, since I wasn't using it almost never, and it would be crazy to continue subscription .. But I want to have Photoshop, since I want to use it few times a year and I would be willing to pay 1 euro or maybe even little bit more for 1 day of Photoshop usage. I would probably not pay you more than 5-10 euros a year, but so what? Still better than nothing, right? 

PS: I think this idea of casual license is just absolutely fantastic and ingenius, I think soo many apps and subscription based services could offer such plans for such casual users, that use that app only very rarely...

[jane-e]

For people that use Photoshop few times a year is crazy to pay such a high money for products that they almost never use.

By @peter_7624

When you join gym and have an annual membership, then use it three times a year, would you expect to pay a euro a day? Or pay a euro for each phone call instead of a monthly fee? You've posted this in Ideas, so the developers will see it, but I would personally not expect it to happen.

Adobe offers a Photography plan (annual) at a deeply discounted price. They have two prices for the single app plan: one is an annual commitment and is discounted, and the other is month-to-month as full price. You might want the plan that you can use for a month and cancel without penalty, but note that it is full price. It's more than a euro though.

Details here: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html

Jane

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[peter_7624]

Those are funny examples, since there is definitely 1 time payment options for people wanting to go to gym. In many many gyms, or almost all of them, you can buy just 1 visit 😄 And it is significantly less then paying annual memerbship to the gym, or some monthly membership:D And the other example is the very same, yeah in many countries, you can just buy credit and yeah, exactly, each phone call or sms is just costing some little amount of money 😄 There so many people that don't pay monhtly fees to mobile network operators, but rather 1-time payments for each usage 😄

So both of your examples are actully proving my point, not opposing it 😄

And lastly to say, you can't just buy Photoshop for 1 month. You can only buy Photoshop monthly, and then cancel it after 1 month of usage, which is sooo user unfriendly !!! 

Imagine I go to some vacation, and as amateur Photographer, I make some photos. I would like to little tweak it, which takes me maybe 1-2 days... I should pay 20 euros for 2 days of Photoshop using? Doesn't this seems crazy to you?
As I said, many amateur Photographers will choose to install cracked Photoshop instead of paying 20 euros for few hours of Photoshop using => they put their computers to risk because of viruses and Adobe earns exactly 0 euro from them. 
Some will leave Adobe ecosystem and will buy different software, again it means 0 euro for Adobe...
Why can't Adobe just understand, that these kind of people exist, and offer them such plan? It is sooo logical thing to do I believe. And it don't have to be 1 euro per day. It can be 2 euros per day, I don't care, still I won't use Photoshop for more than 5 days in a year probably, that would cost me maximum of 10 euros for a year, I would buy definitely buy it !

With this kind of attitude that Adobe currently have, they are like saying we don't car about amateur Photographers, that would like to use our products very rarely... They don't care about these users... And it's sad...

[peter_7624]

And I just don't belive, that money, that Adobe could earn from these casual licenses will be less than people that are casual users and are still willing to pay crazy amounts of money for their very rare usage. 
I think, there are not so many users, that are soooo crazy to pay tens of euros for few days of Photoshop usage in a year, when they are casual and very rare users. They would be willing to pay few euros instead of having viruses, that makes sense. And professionals, who use your pruducts on daily basic and use it for earning money would still buy monthly or annual plans, since it would be cheaper for them, then using this casual license. Or you have to make such rules, that "Casual License" is only for people that don't use Adobe products for profit. In this way, these proffesionals would still need to buy monthly or annual plans.

Pleeeeeeease Adobe, think about it!!! Sooo many people will love you because of it, you help people to get rid of viruses on their PCs and it could also be beneficial for you financially I believe !