Is CC a ripoff? Yes and No. If you are new to the platform, than no. Where else can you get all this software for 600 a year, but that is not the issue I am having. I do not like being told that I have to rent the software for 50/month, because that is only the start. I am an avid CS user, Premiere, AE, PS, Illustrator, DW and now I am at a crossroads as to whether or not join the CC. 600 per year may not be that bad, but if this becomes your main workflow, what happens when Adobe and all their corporate greed, and yes it is greed decides it needs to be 75/month, or 100/month. I currently have 3 computers that I work off of, and the CC will only let you use two so now you have to buy another license for another 50/month. So now I am 100/month for the same setup of using CS6. So now if I am a new user, where is the savings? I get the discount for the first year for upgrading...then what? How high does the Adobe price go? Adobe itself stated that they will never sell a perpetual license again and let people use the software for as long as they want. That my friends is corporate greed. My much loved Adobe has now joined the ranks of Apple. Those of us who love the Apple OS and have been using their computers for years are now caught in inflated price gouging for sub-par machines when compared to the new PC rolling out at half the price and twice the power, and you all know a good PC will last just as long as a Mac. This is forcing many, and myself to change our workflow and begin moving to a PC route simply because of Apples greed to sell a 15" mac book for 2700.00. No thanks Apple. Now Adobe has stepped up to bat and basically doing the same thing. They are forcing our hands, removing the option and telling us what we can and can't do, forcing us loyal Adobe users to change our workflow to accomodate them.
The problem here is the same as our problem with our government. We let them do it and get away with it. Gas prices will never come down because we the consumer have shown that the market will bare that price and we will continue to pay it and take it. Until enough of us step up to Apple and say no more of your record earnings and way over inflated prices, they will continue down their path and we will continue to get robbed by them. Well, the same thing goes here for Adobe. We at the end of the day have the say so as to the fact if they succeed or fail. There are other options out there....good ones also, and if we provide the exodus, Adobe will have no choice but to respond, but the sad thing is that we have become a world of sheep and followers and we will contine to take it in the rear from companies like Adobe and Apple and let them get away with murder.
Adobe will raise thier price and by then it will be all too late. We the consumer ultimately has the power. I say no more. Let Adobe rot until they learn that giving us no choice to choose, only leaves us the choice to say no.