Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements from Lifetime down to just three years

Fuck Adobe. They are the epitome of the greedy, toxic software company.

I switched from Photoshop over to Krita last year. I've tried Gimp in the past, but just can't adjust to the UI. Krita is different too, but not to the same degree. I've been enjoying it. It's well-made and very powerful, with very good online support.

At this point, I treat Adobe like malware on my personal systems.

Enshittification seems to be accelerating.

Literally everyone hates Adobe. At this point I'm shocked there hasn't been a consortium of companies pushing for alternatives.

It's not even just about the money. So many companies rely on a workflow and business model that Adobe can change on a whim at literally any time they like. That's a level of trust I'm surprised that so many companies and governments are completely fine with.

The new license comes in this really cute collar! To activate it. Simply lock the collar on the user's neck and bam! You got 3 years of free Adobe Acrobat and Elements!

Do not take the collar off. It is secured by Battle Royale Inc. it will remove the user's neck area separating the top part from the bottom part. It's a very strict but effective license option!

YSK: you also don't own games on steam, it’s all licenses and they can all be revoked.

That is why i archive pirated DRM-free copies of some games i know i will come back to for Nostalgia in many years.

I fucking hate Adobe so much. Their software has been in a nose dive for years now. I still have to use it for work at the moment, but I'm slowly seeing signs that alternatives are picking up enough adoption to finally ditch them.

Remember, it's morally correct to pirate every single adobe product. Same goes for every Nintendo product

And then once this move has had enough to time to narrow their userbase to only the ones dumb enough to tolerate such bullshit, they'll do it again because number go up lol

Pricing seems to be the same as the previous version. They could have at least charged a little less for the much shorter licenses.

and own

Are you sure?

There has to be a meaningful number of companies where each individually is spending more on adobe licenses than it would cost them to pay a bunch of developers to get gimp to the point where it is a fully sufficient alternative. But hey, the only thing more important to capitalists than making profit seems to be, to not go for cheaper FLOSS options, rather than spending pointlessly large amounts of money on proprietary software…

why cant people just give up adobe and switch to davinci and affinity

Fuckingcapitalists

The scummyness of this company knows no bounds.

That's why I'm a little skeptical when buying lifetime licenses.

I love my Plex server and even pay for Plex pass, would love to buy lifetime. But what if two weeks after I buy they just decide this isn't their business model anymore?

I recently moved to Affinity Photo, so far so good.

There's another free video editor called shotcut. Give it a try, works great.

Weird, just looking at my stats for 'adobe products pirated'. The line item listed just went from 0/lifetime to ~1 every 3 years.

I wonder if this will affect their profit margin.

Genuine question: Why are Adobe clients not holding pitchforks and standing outside their offices every day for the past 2 years?

i miss macromedia :(

Who uses their shitty programs anyway? There are better alternatives for them all.

Perpetual licenses are just scams. It's always startup type trick to get new clients during on-boarding phase for startups. It should be forbidden. It was similar for uber when they were undercutting opponents with their under the cost prices