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Toxic, no. Subscription pricing certainly made Adobe products far more accessible when I was younger. Now that I’m older I do wish I could pay a one off payme

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  Subscriptions are healthy for some things: I have mixed feelings about Creative Cloud but it does make the product accessible to many people and also put updates into everybody's hands for products that they are continuously improving. On the other hand I think for a lot of cases the real business case is "user will forget that their bank account is being bled dry by 20 subscriptions they forgot about." Another one is that I've seen in the long term, together with bundling, they lead to industries that set new revenue records year after year despite being senescent. Cable TV is a particular case: subscribers had no ability to "walk with their feet" when MTV gave up showing music videos. I can't unsubscribe to CNN or Fox News or both of them and still keep my subscription to less pernicious channels. I'm afraid that Microsoft's GAME PASS is going to follow the same trajectory and make the scene for XBOX ONE games even worse than it already is. (Shoulda bought a PS4 is what I know in retrospect.)