Adobe heralds subscription-only future for Photoshop and Creative Suite

[richardginn]

The upgrade means you have an older version that you paid retail for. If you've had Photoshop legally for any period of time you are talking about a $1,000+. And it's not like a version of Photoshop from 10 years ago even runs properly. Even older versions of CS don't run on OS X.

There are very few scenarios where you will come out ahead by having "purchased" any Adobe product over the new model.

You have only a few scenarios to begin with any way. The one that has to start out and buy the Photoshop software. The one that has a previous version of Photoshop and does update each time a new version comes out and the one that owns Photoshop and does not update each time a new version comes out.

Even if you had to buy Adobe Photoshop from the start at 20 bucks a month it will take you three years to reach the retail price of Adobe Photoshop CS6. If you start to throw in updates to the price then you are like at year four when you fully paid them off. Then you are pretty much paying 240 bucks a year to Adobe for updates for that one program which is more than the 199 bucks you would have paid under the old model ever 18 months to update the Photoshop to the latest version of the software.
To me the only people under the old model that made out good were the people that skipped a version and still could update to a new version at a low cost. That is a good portion of people that use the software.

This is just a complete money grab from Adobe that can easily backfire on them.