I already have CS6 and LR4 which do everything I need.

Question

Adobe,
I hope you are listening....
I would like to have Lightroom as part of the CC package along with Photoshop. If this were the case I would probably sigh up today or at the next release of either product.
But there are a couple of things that would need clearing up first.
1) I require that after an agreed upon interval equivalent to the price of the perpetual license version of a given      software that the original version remain functional if I deceide to stop the subscription.
Let's say I Subscribe to CC CS6 and LR4 at the market price of $750
Then at the price of $20 subscription after 38 months of paying the subscition service I would be able to  retain the functionallity of the original CS6 and LR4 if the subscription is cancelled.
2) At any point in time during that 38 month period I will be able to buy the product/s at a prorated price.
3) Yearly price freeze for subscriptions.
If these are not the case then the question is why should I bother? What is in it for us Semi Pros or Advanced Amatures without deep pockets or a corporate budget?

Answer 1

RORWessels wrote:
Are you basically asking for two apps for the price of one?  While we would all love to get two for the price of one, I don't think they, being Adobe, are willing to just give away software.
It was PS, LR, and Acrobat Pro where the apps that made me really consider the value of the CC membership.  I can understand the feeling of having to pay for things you are not interested in or willing to pay for.  Individual memberships for two or more apps though seem to make the full CC membership much more attractive.  At least in my case.
Yes...
or you can say that we are asking for 16% of the cloud applications for 40% of the price. I think that is a great deal for Adobe!
Of course if other software companies see that Adobe can pull off this Pay As You Go scheme then they will all get on board.
Let's start small, MS Office ,by subscription...  Windows, Mac OS?
The software companies developed this marketing strategy years ago, but like the old days of Customer Service call departments dying off so might the concept of perpetual licensing. It's a brave new world.