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I have a hard time understanding why anyone would lease a service that is vital to their job, or at least without a backup. If your livelihood depends on something then spend your money appropriately. Even if you did sign up for CC you can still have an older version ready to go in a pinch.

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Adobe is increasingly forcing you to do it.

EDIT: For example, can you figure out how to buy Photoshop from this page? I can't. I've been trying for a couple minutes.

http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/software._sl_id-conten...

You have to find it here, I've had this page bookmarked since they started pushing CC, just in-case.

http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilt...

Wow! I didn't even realise it was still possible to buy Adobe products the old-school way.

This is extremely good news.

Yes - but it's old versions that will no longer be updated. You can usually find older versions directly from resellers at Amazon at prices below Adobe's direct prices.

The older versions also will not accept files created in the newer Creative Cloud versions. This has been a constant source of frustration at my office. It's an excellent way for Adobe to encourage/force everyone to buy CC.

Yeah, that's pretty clearly the wrong page for buying photoshop. But I quickly found the right one by going to Products > Creative Suite 6 > Buy CS6 > Buy Photoshop CS6. The real problem is finding it if you don't know that it's part of Creative Suite 6.

Except CS6 is not the latest version of Photoshop. The equivalent would be a car lot refusing to sell new cars, only to lease them.

You can't buy the latest versions of Adobe software. They are simply not available for purchase. You can only rent them. So if you work with designers who use Creative Cloud you are similarly forced to subscribe. At this point, I'm probably just going to get out of the field entirely once it becomes impossible to continue because of Adobe's idiocy.

The cost breakdown shows that someone who upgrades with every major release saves money going with the CC. Plus your average art-focused computer user may not want to worry about updates and stuff.

I agree it would probbly be smart to have an old copy of CS4 sitting on your computer though, just in case.

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