Cs5.5 Pay for a point upgrade?

Question

I bought Cs5 a month ago as my work laptop has it but I felt my better specked home machine more suitable. I read about the 5.5 update and find to my surprise I’m not eligible my serial number arrived 3/3/11 .I would expect to pay to upgrade between versions but a point upgrade really? I’m feeling undervalued by Adobe. I suppose the leading graphics software producer can be belligerent with its position.
I mainly use Pixel logic’s Zbrush for my 3d design work. I feel I have been spoiled by their customer care in ten years each point and full upgrade has been free.
I doubt I’ll pay to upgrade why risk it 5.6 will arrive the day after and I won’t be eligible for that either.
By the time cs6 arrives we shall have all moved to let’s say ipad3 and we know how well apple and adobe play together.
Do the right thing Adobe, support me for a year or loose me. You’re not the only game in town. The times they are a changing.

Answer 1

If I make a product that contains flaws, I wouldnt charge to repair it, which is in essence what a point upgrade is
It isn't! Clearly, as a person in touch with the 3D world, even if only tangentially by ways of ZBrush, you are aware about standing complaints of fellow artists about lack of advancement and fixes in Autodesk's forced yearly product upgrades, things breaking with every release and what have you. Or would you like me to tell you which things Maxon broke in Cinema 4D R12 that worked perfectly in 11.5? So for what it's worth, your statement makes no sense whatsoever - there is not a single software on this planet that is free of "flaws" or bugs, even ZBrush. it's simply impossible with a few million lines of code and entire teams of programmers working on it and those programmers being humans... Aside from that, I could go into endless discussions about "as designed" vs. "as understood by the user", but let's just say that what you may consider a flaw may be perfectly meant to be this way. Other than that, if you have serious bugs and feature requests, simply report them here. Everything else is beside the point. as for grace periods and such, consider some of what I wrote in this thread. And yeah, Marian has a point - if all you are worried about is Photoshop, then you have caused a stirr for nothing. There is no PS CS5.5 and you can peacefulyl wait for CS6 around this time of year next year, presumably.
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