Quote Originally Posted by richardginn View Post
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.
Money grab? For the first time every Adobe products are actually affordable, even in the Photoshop only scenario. Most people have pirated Adobe products since the dawn of time. Macromedia's MODEL for Flash was to encourage piracy so that there was content for Flash.

Even if you skip a version or two, you are still talking about a $1,000+ investment over time. And it's $20 right now, but will probably drop (it already has). So unless you bought a version of Photoshop, then waited four years to upgrade you still come out ahead under this new model.

This is the first time in the history of Adobe that Creative Suite might actually be purchased by average people, because it's actually affordable. The price has already dropped from $135/mo to $80/mo to $50/mo. It may drop even further as they figure out the right equilibrium.