Is Adobe no longer selling traditional licenses?

Question

Saw a tweet from Andrew Kramer today (videocopilot.net) that the new AE was coming out but would require a Creative Cloud subscription.
Does anyone know if this is the case?

Answer 1

Jim,
As a preface, the following isn't intended to be a snarky remark but merely to clarify what I meant:
Premise: A previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.
Their premise is in the subject line, "How greedy is Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription? Not very"
Their calculation of numbers is merely in support of that premise. So as I mentioned, I don't accept their premise. And as I've demonstrated, I can spin numbers with the best of them.
All companies exist for one and only one reason - to make a profit. Expecting ethics and morality because it's the nice thing to do is foolish and unrealisitc. To a certain degree, I even go along with Gordon Gekko's "Greed is good," There reaches a point, however, when greed becomes so overreaching as to be injurious to the source of revenue. More simply pot, if you kill the goose, it's a little hard on your stream of golden eggs. At that point, greed is bad for the people who care most: shareholders.
If Adobe had announced that after CS 6 they would make no further feature updates ever again to their software, I doubt they'd keep their customer base over the long term. With a rental model, that's exactly what they've said to those who require perpetual licensing.
The danger and inherent damage to the customer isn't difficult to see if you look, and it has little to do with the relative cost of CC vs perpetual. I'm already on record as being highly supportive of normal subscription plans. Consider this. If Apple had been going on the rental model since the beginning of FCP, when 10 came out people would still have to keep paying Apple in order to use 9, no matter how much they disliked 10. Apple would get another year's worth of implicit upgrade fees while providing no value to the customer for that year. But they have normal licensing and therefore people were free to skip the upgrade to 10, keep using 9 and not have their pockets picked in the process. If 11 is a good value, they'll get more upgrade customers. If it's not, the customer doesn't get screwed for that version, either. They can opt to not pay but still use 9.
Adobe's making a move to get rid of all customers who might opt out of an upgrade, whether it's due to lack of finances or a FCP 10 - like release. They're making a play to lock in a customer base who will always pay for each and every version of product they release, whether that version is worthwhile to the customer or not, and they do this by removing all future choice. Ballsy. Predatory, excessively greedy (as opposed to "not very," the premise I don't accept), but ballsy.
By the way, rather than speaking to the point I was actually making, you instead latched on to something I said in passing and chose to make an issue of that instead. That's fine, it's the nature of forums. However, my point that was waving around the 500k number as a way of telling the disenfranchised that their thinking was wrong and most people in fact love the cloud is invalid and rather poor math. I mention this since you're clearly fond of numbers.