Re: When I open my Creative Cloud application it asks me for my serial number?

So I sign of for creative cloud,
wow, this was a huge deal to get photoshop to install properly.
now it asks me for a serial number (never successfully started). I've never been sent a serial number. Most of the links in this post are dead, there is no help or support that I can tell for any adobe product and I have to travel across town to another computer to use photoshop which I am paying for.
"Learn More" goes really extensively into redemption codes, which I never received (was I supposed to, who the heck knows?)
1. Was I supposed to receive a serial number or redemption code?
2. Where was it supposed to come to?
3. Is there a place to get real help?
The forums are full of dead links, dead references and pissed off people as far as I can tell. All of whom have a different problem than me (sudden deactivation, not the program never worked). The program and the cc app don't provide any step by steps as to what are the normal steps to get things to work. I see people in this thread still begging for help a year later.
Since Monday morning, trying to install photoshop in my new office has cost me about 6 hours, it seems to be a paid program with absolutely no help or support.
How much more time do I waste trying to use this product? Is this what happens when a company buys all their competitors?

Branching this to a separate discussion.
Idontextistyt were you previously able to utilize your Creative Cloud Membership or have you always been prompted to enter a serial number? Also which operating system are you using? Finally are you on a managed network?

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it's the overblown, silly statements that make people look foolish, do nothing to help the issue, and offer nothing that crack me up. When I read someone saying things like that i pretty much ignore anything else they say because reason isn't something they are using at that point anyway.
See what you said? that has nothing to do with anyone I'm talking about. You made a valid point, didn't make silly comments like what I'm referring to. you said something I don't agree with, but you dind't go overboard and get all dramatic about it. I don't agree that it's an ongoing degredation of their rep. there is nobody even remotely close a valid competitor out there for this in the first place (depending on what software yoiu're referring to, but since we're in the CC forum i assume that's what you mean). The fact is, their reputation is so strong, no other software company can even compete. But even so I still see progress and innovation. Intel had a cushion with no competitor at one point, then AMD came in, and if you notice, within a couple years of AMD getting very popular, Intel started releasing their upgraded technology in less than a third of the time. But I don't think I see that laziness from Adobe. I don't honestly know that the reason is they moved to a subscription based environment but I know that almost all big software companies are at leasdt considering it. heck Microsoft was talking about changing their licensing and doing it the same way. And it's not for greed I'd guess, it's to comabt theft. At least that's my guess, i have no idea, but i don't believethat it's done and they would change their entire business model for a reason lefss important.
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