BobZ30 wrote:
There is no way people like you will ever admit that users are not forced to use the CC model. You don't like to use "rental" software, so don't use it. Use whatever else you can find out there or use CS6 and wait for CS7 and renew your perpetual license. If 3 million users are enrolled in CC, it must be because, oh, I don't know, they don't have your insight.
Please do not generalize, and please re-read what I have been writing. I am not against a subscription model - I am against a subscription only model.
And Adobe has stated categorically that there will never be any perpetual license after CS6 - which they will be stopping to sell sometime in the future (they already did so for companies, and it is just a matter of time for single licenses).
Furthermore, I never wrote that all of 3 million users are forced into CC - not at all. I am merely saying that a large number of them would prefer a perpetual license, IF they were given the choice (and we are not).
I teach design and web dev courses. I asked hundreds of students for their opinion about CC rental only, and discussed CC with many professional colleagues working in varying design fields. Based on that I can state with relative confidence that a large number of people using CC would rather return to a perpetual license IF they had the choice. Myself included.
Before the rental-only model was introduced, the use of Adobe software was never questioned in my classes and by my colleagues in various fields like graphic design, film editing, effects, or web. Now I have friends. students, and colleagues asking me about alternatives, because they dislike the CC subscription only plan.
So, it is really very simple: just bring back the choice to us. Having the choice between a perpetual license and a subscription plan never hurt any Adobe user - quite the opposite, because we had a choice.
