I have the CC for teams to work more effectively with my clients and cut down on the servers that I lease.
So far to add any clients to my team is $70.00 a month per client, 8 clients X $70.00 = $560.00 a month. They only want to see the files and the printers just want to down load the files. Printers already have their software and don't need to use my "teams" copy. My clients don't want to use the software they just want to see the files and proof as I make changes. They don't have anyone on their staff to do design work, I don't know many designers that would go that far north for a job. The current version of file sharing is so primitive it only allows downloading one file at a time same thing with sharing. I can't backup from the CC files to my computer because CC doesn't have this very basic ability. Only one by one, not even folder downloading.
I rent a web server for $99.00 a year that can do all of this. And a small amount of file management on my part.
I do have a couple of client that are very interested as they have seen me using it at their site and working on their web sites.
I refuse to be responsible for seats for them (meaning the $70.00 a month) So they check out if they can get CC themselves. As they have never used the software they have no discounts. They get a team CC account and to ad me is another $70 a month even though I already have my own team account. Just to see and get their files. I offer them this for free from my $99.00 web server.
If all my clients did this I would have 9 user accounts, 9 keys to software application and Adobe would collect 9 times $69.00 each month just to share files with my clients.
The cloud for file sharing is for the birds, an old fashion BB has more features. The software is great but Adobe has a very long long way to go to provide us with a file sharing environment that is affordable. I have tried it out and I am a veteran of many workflow projects but I am going back a single user and continue to use the affordable services I have been using and wait until the "team" environment is more thought out for the type of free lance designer that includes me.
Adobe needs to point out the primitive nature of the cloud for file sharing as it pertains to freelance designers. If I was a large company with many designers I could see the cost effectiveness of "teams" but as soon as the printers were told they have to download files one by one, the cloud would be out the door and the companies own files servers can off more file sharing features to the designers than the cloud could dream of.
Last but not lease: The extra room "space" for a "team" account, let me plug a tera-drive into the companies's servers or ask my web hosting company how much to add extra space and I will get back to you.
Daniel C. Walters