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Creative Cloud is an incredible deal if you want to do professional work. And you can, last I check, get it at a monthly rate or get licenses for smaller packa

• chefandy 5y ago
  Yeah. The subscription pricing is a bummer for hobbyists or people who infrequently need it professionally. But professional users bought updates regularly anyway and probably ended up spending more money. Beyond the actual total price tag, there was a zero percent chance I’d have been able to fork over a lump sum of well over a grand for Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge, InDesign, Premier and Acrobat/Distiller. Now for $60/mo I get all those with constant updates, support in case something goes FuBar the night before a deadline, plus the option to pop into After Effects or Audition or anything else I need to. Heck, Adobe Fonts probably saves me more than $60 in some months. I don’t have any loyalty to Adobe and would jump ship if a professionally viable alternative came out that was less proprietary, let alone cheaper, but most of the alternatives just aren’t. I do think that’s changing, so we’ll see though.