10-19-2017, 10:48 PM
Oh and while I said I was fine with the subscription service and the price, get this:
I got my first LR copy with a discount when I bought my Nex 7. 70$ instead of 120$ or so, if I remember correctly. I had LR3 on trial before that and had gotten LR4 with the Nex 7. It was a huge difference between those two versions. I'd absolutely pay for the upgrade price.
Then came LR5 out. No major changes, I didn't care about any of them. But I just got the A7 which wouldn't work with the LR4. Very shortly afterwards, CC service was announced.
I had done some maths at that time. Subscription price for LR alone would come up to buying every upgrade license for every version. I was changing cameras rather often back then, so I figured I'd have to pay for the upgrade anyway. So why not pay them and get a Photoshop license alongside as well. It's good value, when you think about it.
On the other hand, I did end up paying for the license upgrade even though I wouldn't need any of the new features. I don't think anything worthwhile came to LR or PS in the meantime. I'd be absolutely happy with Photoshop CS5 or CS6. Did not upgrade from my A7 neither, so maybe I should've just bought a LR5 upgrade and stop at that.
In the meantime, my LR4 license is absolutely worthless right now. Subscription price was the same whether I had a previous license or not. No additional discount or anything.
Long story short, Adobe managed to get money from me by releasing a LR version every year, so they wouldn't have to support new cameras in the older versions. Once they introduced a new way of getting my money constantly, they stopped with introducing new and useful features at all.
I got my first LR copy with a discount when I bought my Nex 7. 70$ instead of 120$ or so, if I remember correctly. I had LR3 on trial before that and had gotten LR4 with the Nex 7. It was a huge difference between those two versions. I'd absolutely pay for the upgrade price.
Then came LR5 out. No major changes, I didn't care about any of them. But I just got the A7 which wouldn't work with the LR4. Very shortly afterwards, CC service was announced.
I had done some maths at that time. Subscription price for LR alone would come up to buying every upgrade license for every version. I was changing cameras rather often back then, so I figured I'd have to pay for the upgrade anyway. So why not pay them and get a Photoshop license alongside as well. It's good value, when you think about it.
On the other hand, I did end up paying for the license upgrade even though I wouldn't need any of the new features. I don't think anything worthwhile came to LR or PS in the meantime. I'd be absolutely happy with Photoshop CS5 or CS6. Did not upgrade from my A7 neither, so maybe I should've just bought a LR5 upgrade and stop at that.
In the meantime, my LR4 license is absolutely worthless right now. Subscription price was the same whether I had a previous license or not. No additional discount or anything.
Long story short, Adobe managed to get money from me by releasing a LR version every year, so they wouldn't have to support new cameras in the older versions. Once they introduced a new way of getting my money constantly, they stopped with introducing new and useful features at all.