Photoshop CC-cloudy thinking

Question

I use P/S CS6 and Lightroom 4. As a photographer I have had no interest in the other products. It looks as if there will be no CS7, and I will have to "lease" any forthcoming improvements to CS6.  The intro *sucker price* has no relationship to the price in a year or two. A very good deal for Adobe's cash flow, not appealing to me.  As a loyal Adobe customer since 1994, This is very disappointng and it looks like I will stick with CS6 for the foreseeable future.  But I will be keeping my eyes open for other non-Adobe substitutes.  This is an ideal time for other developers to come into the market. I have to think there will be thousands of unhappy Adobe customers.  If I have this wrong, I wish someone would talk me back from the ledge.

Answer 1

I am not a professional but an amateur photographer - a serious amateur but an amateur nevertheless. I have been a loyal Photoshop user since it was first released. I have purchased every upgrade as it came out, not every other upgrade, every one. I also own and use Lightroom and have purchased every version as well. Clearly, I'm not unwilling to spend my hard earned money on software I find offers sufficient value.
However, under the proposed cloud computing license I find neither simple math nor the licensing terms offer adequate value and unless Adobe changes course, I expect to be deserting the Adobe ship very soon.
Simple math: As noted above, I upgrade to every new version as it is released. This effectively costs me roughly $200 for PS and $80 for LR every couple of years. Under the new plan I am expected to pay $240 yearly for PS (and an unknown future amount for LR). What do I gain for nearly three times the bi-annual cost?
License terms: Under the perpetual license if I chose to NOT purchase an upgrade, my software continued to work until hardware or OS compatibility issues rendered it obsolete. The choice was mine. Under the CC license terms, should I fail to pay my monthly fee, the software stops working - period.
These two items touch only briefly on my concerns. Both of these issues have already been covered in far more detail in this forum (and probably with more emotion and vitriol) but I feel it is imperative that those of us who have supported Adobe in the past make our concerns clear. I see nothing in this program that benefits the user; the only benefit is to significantly improve Adobe's cashflow. Perhaps the loss of a certain percentage of customers like me is part of their calculation.
(BTW, I own a 12-person software development company.)