Upgrade to CS4 Extended - Pricing

Is it simply an error in the web store or is there no advantage to upgrading from CS3 extended to CS4 extended over just CS3 (or CS2 or CS1) to CS4 Extended. Its all $349 to upgrade to CS4 extended no matter what Photoshop (CS) version you start from. This is just crazy.

i Well, if there is no price benefit to skipping an upgrade, then I wouldn't do it. (As was the case with Quark.) So a tiered pricing scheme would force me to spend more money.
I still have no idea what you are talking about and I have no experience with Quark pricing. I am not talking about skipping new release upgrades. I am talking about feature upgrades. I do have experience with AE when they had two versions, pro and regular. Once you purchased the Pro version the new release versions cost less than a new release + upgrade from standard to pro. I was expecting to see the same strategy for Photoshop Extended as they used to have with After Effects. Furthermore, Adobe's stance on upgrading price from two versions ago being the same as the the past version has not changed in some time and it was not unexpected to me. But the pricing to get from extended to extended is brand new and thus was surprising to me.
On my second machine, I do not have Extended, just CS3. With this scheme that extended cost more every time you upgrade, I will never upgrade to expended. Adobe is telling me that I will have to pay more year after year for extended. This is why I thought it might be a mistake as the incentive is for me to keep using the basic version. I'd expect that after one makes the added expense of extended that new release upgrades from extended to extended would be the same price as regular to regular, or at least less than regular old to extended new. I am not sure why this concept is difficult to grasp. But what it means for me is that going to extended will never happen on my second machine.

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Steve House wrote:
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