It just galls me that after using CC for long enough, I will be so much money in and once I stop with the subscription costs, it will go away. All that money in and I own nothing.
The longer you use a perpetual license, the cost of that license actually goes down. With subscription, you always have the same cost going out every month, so over time, it actually doesn't go down.
I only use what I believe to be is a small percentage if its functionality. For others, maybe you use all of AI or PS capability, and that's fine. But in my mind, why can't I just own it? In 5 or 10 years, when or if I ever need more functionality, at that time I have the option to upgrade.
To me, it's not so much the functionality of an individual software within the suite, but how much of the entire suite you use. I only needed Design Premium (which I would imagine most people on here is all that they ever needed, maybe even Design Standard they could eeck by with).
Adobe stock has been really good ($156.80), so their business model with CC seems to have worked.
Most people live in the now and that's what they are focused on. Not in say 5, 10 yrs from now. They focus on what they have to pay now, to what the total cost is down the road.
Shoot, when Adobe was "comparing" the cost of the 2 when they starting to the new subscription only model, they stopped at 3 yrs out. Which for me on leasing, would be about right. 2 to 3 yrs and that's when leasing starts to really add up.
Now if you needed all the programs, it would have taken 20 yrs before perpetual cost less (which is negligible in my mind between the 2 license costs), but if you just needed more then one, but less then all, that's when there was a problem and that's what I would imagine most on here being. Needing more then 1 or 2, but not quite needing all of them.
I feel like others about paying the "rent" to use it is wasting money.
It is, if you are paying more money in the long run for something that would have been more economical and more profitable by using the other method and you would have more control over.
Some people may call me cheap, but I will save that money and put it in my pocket so it is mine and not theirs.
Getting a good deal or getting the same thing for a lesser amount over the long term isn't being cheap. Buying an inferior good, because it's cheap is being cheap. At least to me.
Just a matter of time till Corel moves to the CC model.
Which is ironic considering Corel used the perpetual license model to get a lot of converts. However, I would say that a lot of software (particularly closed source) will be going that way. Especially when you start to consider that Corel is trying to get on a yearly release cycle with DRAW.
I don't use Corel, even though it comes with my digitizing software, but as long as they offer both, I would be happy. Remove an option, that's where things get less happy for me.
Bare in mind too, at least with Ai and DRAW, we are looking at programs that are 28-30 yrs old. I would say that at this time, especially for commercial products, they are fully mature. Sure there may be a few things every couple of years to keep them relevant with current standards, but pretty much as far as tool sets go, they are pretty mature.
Have to find some way to stabilize the "upgrades" to continue to get that revenue in and I can understand that. Just how they sell that reasoning is not kosher in my mind.
