My anger read like a list in my mind so apparently thats how I translated it here-
-What if we are without internet service for a period of time?
-What if we have poor internet service?
-Do you mean if we have a lapse in payment, suddenly our “work flow” tanks?
-If there is an account glitch (not that uncommon) do we loose our client because we could no longer use our software?
-What about students who get raped now?
-What about institutions who get raped now? Imagine a glitch on the networked system (it happens a lot more than you would think)
-Good job on messing up how some grants are allocated too. Grants can be used monthly but it makes the process much more tricky in their allocation. Lets say you can pay a year in advance. Ok great! Except now you have to write a grant again for the following year. Or if you don’t do grants then you have to budget for this each and every year. Fiscal term accounts don’t usually carry over in the education sector.
-What did you lose by making a subscription based product AND selling physical copies OR just the full download minus the subscription?
-We can already get updates jackasses. We don’t need a subscription to get updates.
-How will this support periphery programs that are not convoluted… oops, I mean cloud based? Or subscription based?
-Ever have an effed up download? No, never happens, oh wait. To bad you don’t have a physical copy, sorry, try again, have a nice day.
-And for those of us photographers, oh goodie, I am now forced into doing this for compatibility with my cameras file formats. In other words to use ACR… well, you get the picture (pun intended). Gawd forbid I buy a new camera.
-For those of us illustrators (particularly future illustrators), oh joy, why cant we draw on the computer again without paying each month?
-There is no student teacher price for individual programs, just the $20 for the whole CC as opposed to $50. So instead of $600 students and faculty can pay $240. That’s a good chunk of dough for a student who just needs Photoshop or Illustrator. And more than it used to be for single programs. So instead of getting one thing for cheap, OH JOY, you can get more for MORE! But don’t forget that after the first year you have to pay $30 a month. So it changes to $360, lol, cuz students only spend a year in school right?
-Lets see, for a student in a 4-5 year program. It’s $1680. LOL, and that’s just for the use of Photoshop. Whereas before, it could cost you anywhere between $150-750 for all five years, non-updated to updated. I know most students tend not to upgrade in tight intervals. And upgrades before were only like what? Once every two years or close to it? AND upgrades used to be heavily discounted.
-BTW, it’s only a small portion of artists (designers included) that can easily fork out the money for these products, let alone get stuck on a payment plan for them. And just because some people use Apple products it doesn’t mean they have money. This new asinine notion of the artist as some sort of “hipster money maker” is a joke of epic proportions.
To Adobe-
“Hey you over there! Nice wrench you got! Would you mind terribly if I asked you to throw it at me at what seems like random intervals when I’m least expecting it?” kthnxbai
-From your users (previously loyal)
-Step it up Corel! Let me love you for something other than Painter!
-Step it up GIMP! (good gawd I hate that program) I’m still rootin for ya though!
I don’t want Adobe to loose, I just don’t want them to win with this idea. And I really don’t want them to drag other companies into this absurd black and white system. The “you’re either with us or against us” BS mentality.
-Thanks Adobe for getting the world stuck in not being able to quit you (lulz). Congrats Adobe for becoming an unwelcomed narcotic.
I really hope your new venture into the hardware business does not pan out the same.
UserA- "HEY! What happened to my pen?!?"
UserB- "What's wrong?"
UserA- "My pen stopped working"
UserB- "Bummer, did you pay your bill?"
UserA- "Oh, nevermind" *walks off and hangs himself*
For the TL;DR crowd-
Pay your bills and move along, move along...