Scott Schroeder Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 You have to be on subscription to open your own project files. Thats it ... With this you are not only renting their software but you are renting into your own projects accessability No active subscription = no access to your own projects Easy as that Really? Cite your source or it didn't happen. We have CC at work and I can open my AE/PS/BYOB/etc files at home on my good old standard Suite software. Even if that is the case, you have 180 days grace period to validate your license. If you can figure out how to get your license activated in that time period, you don't deserve to access. The CC sub is not an always on license. It's every 30 days to check and you get 180 days grace if you have a massive internet failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 I imagine you could also open/convert the files with open source software if you did decide to discontinue your sub and still had need to edit previous work without restarting a CC sub. I think everyone would be lighting their torches if Adobe suggested such a limitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 For $30 a month I get every piece of Adobe out there. I think its a bargain, Like Ernest I signed up straight away and went from PS CS4 to CC (latest everything). Your software is always up to date, its cheap as chip[s and can be written of against tax as a subscription. I think the roll-out and implimentation was flawless. I can have it on multiple machines (my wife uses the parts of the suite that I dont, like InDesign on a mac) and Ive never had any conflicts or 'outages'. Thumbs up Adobe. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672530/adobe-5-reasons-we-killed-the-creative-suite I'd for sure get the Photoshop and AE cloud for home use, but I'm still not sold on getting the whole suite. There would just be too much software that I don't use, but it seems Adobe is really pushing the entire suites out. Though, seriously, how many iterations can they come out with for their products in a year or even 2 years? A new way to do levels? A new slider in After Effects? The potential for feature creeps is now becoming those ominous storm clouds on the horizon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josef Wienerroither Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 (edited) Scott: you only can do that because you got the standard license on top of the subscription ( means twice payed). And this standard license option will disappear ( can't buy any longer ) Think about new customers: buy into CC and decide after 2~3 yrs to not pay any longer And you can't do anything with your after effect projects after that. Previously you still had your license available to render out with some changes as often and when you like, even after 5 yrs. now you can't. This license model looks good upfront but bites in the long run when you don't want to stick with the subscription ... Edited May 10, 2013 by spacefrog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Yeah but that doesnt make any sense at all. If you want to drop the subscription for a month because youre not using it, thats fine. Just pick it up again the following month. So if you view CC as a professional tool (something that makes money) then you just need to get a $50 project per month and it pays for itself. If you want to play with it like a toy, then you can rent it for $50 per month, there's no penalty for stopping and starting. Scott: you only can do that because you got the standard license on top of the subscription ( means twice payed). And this standard license option will disappear ( can't buy any longer ) Think about new customers: buy into CC and decide after 2~3 yrs to not pay any longer And you can't do anything with your after effect projects after that. Previously you still had your license available to render out with some changes as often and when you like, even after 5 yrs. now you can't. This license model looks good upfront but bites in the long run when you don't want to stick with the subscription ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Schroeder Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Scott: you only can do that because you got the standard license on top of the subscription ( means twice payed). And this standard license option will disappear ( can't buy any longer ) Think about new customers: buy into CC and decide after 2~3 yrs to not pay any longer And you can't do anything with your after effect projects after that. Previously you still had your license available to render out with some changes as often and when you like, even after 5 yrs. now you can't. This license model looks good upfront but bites in the long run when you don't want to stick with the subscription ... Why would you just up and decide to cancel your subscription? Unless you are moving to a new program which renders your adobe files useless anyways. I don't know about you, but I use Adobe products every day. I'm not going to have a rough day and decide, "Screw Adobe!" and cancel my subscription. Then, a week later, have cancel remorse and decide to go crawling back. If you are a willy nilly Adobe user, then maybe the subscription model isn't the best. But it is what it is. Tom has a good suggestion about a per job base of using the subscription. Think about that. $50 bucks for a month, then cancel. Versus thousands of dollars for the entire suite just for a month use and after that you may not use it for a while. What is more cost effective? To put this into perspective, the Creative Suite 6 Master Collection will set you back ~$2,500, while a single Photoshop CS6 license is ~$700. At $600/year for the complete Creative Cloud suite, it would be more than four years until you surpassed the hefty CS6 Master Collection standalone price. At $240/year for Photoshop CC (or another Creative Cloud app), you’re still looking at 2-3 years before you “overpay.” Let’s not forget that you should get a new major release of Creative Cloud apps every 12 months as part of the subscription price, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kleinstein Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Adobe CC... Hy everyone! We have some remarks to do..... We are Adobe costumers for the long time. We brought eachyear the full perpetual licenses, they built them capital with ours (ours,yours) money. Don’t forget our (our, you) money help them to developed and nowit’s unjust to “rent” the software. Butdon’t forget, always we have options like: Corel Painter, Gimp, Komodo Edit,Aptana Studio. They are not perfect butwe can use them anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 With the CC is the licence a floating licence? Could I have a home pc and an office pc and use CC on both just not at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francisco Penaloza Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 With the CC is the licence a floating licence? Could I have a home pc and an office pc and use CC on both just not at the same time? Yes that's correct, you can install in both machines but only use one instance software at the time, this is cool because even if you install in a third machine, the software recognize this and un check one of the previews 2 machines so there is always only 2 computers under you account, like itunes, sort of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 (edited) Actually I love the new system. Until now there was a penalty when upgrading late or skipping a release, luring me into upgrading more often than not. Now I just keep using CS6 until there is a feature I like after which I can start using CC .... which could take 4-5 years looking at history .... saving me at least 2500 euro Edit: 5000 euro !!! I have 2 seats .... that's a decent vacation Edit: Sorry, forgot to thank you: Adobe Edited May 15, 2013 by Trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Actually I love the new system. Until now there was a penalty when upgrading late or skipping a release, luring me into upgrading more often than not. Now I just keep using CS6 until there is a feature I like after which I can start using CC .... Looks like we will be taking the same approach. Not really much penalty for putting it off when you look at the long term. We will at least wait and see how long the promotion runs for using a CS6 serial for the (minimal, IMO) discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dande Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 I only use the Adobe products from time to time. I was just about to upgrade to CS6. But I think the CC could work for me. I can just sign up for a month when i need it then unsubscribe when I don't. Then just bill it to the particular job I'm working on. If I had to sign up for the year it would not be cost effective for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dande Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 I just read it again. You have to give a year commitment. I might have to look at alternative software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 we have options like: Corel Painter... Party like it's 1999 Somebody still sells that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I think in terms of value Adobe is about the best you can get at the moment for what you actually receive. Have you seen the alternatives to After Effects and Photoshop for compositing, you're talking about thousands of pounds for alternatives such as Nuke, or Fusion?! If you do jump-ship, where are people looking to go, GIMP?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 Just noticed Unity3D now operate a monthly subscription of $75 (1 year minimum) for their software. Perhaps this trend will snowball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyderSK Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) One plus for those who (like me) use Behance ProSite, the Adobe CC already included this, and it's 10 dollars per month so there are various other benefits compared to purely just the software. Prosite, cloud storage, fonts, etc... it will rise as well. It's rather good deal. If you attended Behance Portfolio review meet-up, you got as well 40perc. off, this meetup is bi-annual, and I guess the benefits will continue next year. So for 2-3 hours per year, you can stay on 40perc. off price for as long as Adobe will own Behance and sponsor its actions. If anyone can complain, it's again us, the rest of the world outside USA paying much larger sum for whatever amount to "support"... but, again, look at the upper mentioned offer Edited May 28, 2013 by RyderSK typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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