Adobe cloud

[kitedemon]

Rant warning...

I work in a university, typically we are under fiscal restraint. Part of my job is to manage a small node of computers , 20. We run adobe creative suite on all of them. For many years we have had an educational license and service contract. This is costly but not crazy (under 4000 for two years)

We have been told that we will have. To use the 'creative cloud' when our contract expires. Apparently they will not be selling anything other than cloud software in the near future.

The educational price is 30$ a computer a month! 7200 $ a year!

Add the licensing disaster they have been having since Christmas. It so sucks how they can get away with that is crazy.

Very frustrating!!!!


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[kitedemon]

I have been told today by the largest camera retailer in Canada they were told to no longer sell photoshop. Now you can only rent it. I seem to be alone in my frustration at the adobe junk they are pulling now. First AAMEE is broken and they still have no viable fix (since DEC!!!) and now they want everyone to rent. I guess this will be a huge hammer to the stolen photoshop copies out there. It will be more difficult to steal it now. I have yet to see a hack for the cloud at this point and as the last copy of stand alone photoshop is out now. The cloud is still not cracked yet (after a year) it seems clear why, they may have struck a blow those whom steal software.

[Mike41793]

Im sorry you're so angry... I really wish I knew what you were saying so I could be mad with you...

[kitedemon]

Thanks for that Mike !
Adobe is not going to sell photoshop anymore. They are going to rent it. You download a slave version and pay per month to use it. If you stop paying it stops working. The cost about 480 per year per computer.

It kills my budget we were paying under 4000 for 20 computers for 2 years of free updates. Now 9600 dollars per year 19000 for the same time and amount we were paying 4000. It is a massive problem!

All because so many steal the product. The real killer for me is if it were reasonably priced in the first place not so many would steal it.

This move helps business and screws schools and thieves. I am sure that sooner or later someone will figure out how to steal it again so the only group that is hurt is schools.


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[Mike41793]

If they can figure out how to steal it now, they'll figure out how to do it again lol...

[kitedemon]

Likely that just means schools get the short end. Although there is no hack to steal it yet after 6 or 8 months... usually there is one in hours so that may not happen quickly.

[kitedemon]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/05...ative-cloud-cc

[ChaosAffect]

Cloud computing is the wave of the future, but that price is highway robbery, especially for an educational institution. I remember the days when both hardware and software companies would give schools massive discounts so that students would be trained on their stuff and purchase their own eventually... Apparently Adobe doesn't. Truly a company that needs to be brought to it's knees. Hopefully an 'Industry Standard' shift is on it's way.

[TheSnakeGeek]

if adobe wasn't so ridiculously priced in the first place there wouldn't be the widespread pirating of it. i bet if photoshop was only 200 or 300 bucks they would make more profit from the people who would've pirated actually paying for it. $700 for some software, something that isn't even physically tangible, is nothing short of robbery. being on a college budget, i could, and gladly would, fork up $200 for photoshop. $700... bite me.

[kitedemon]

Not anymore, you can no longer buy it. It is now •only• 480$ a year, a computer. The choice to not upgrade to save money is gone now it is just 480 a year flat.