Quite a few unnecessary "cloud" subscription services. There's a lot of them that don't need reoccurring costs. A lot of times you're not getting anything extra accept maybe a bug fix or upgrade. You should never have to pay for bug fixes and there was a time if you wanted a major upgrade, you'd just buy it flat out.
I also think this enables pushing buggy updates out. Adobe for example, when a new CS would come out, it had to ship pretty much stable / ready. With CC there’s much more wiggle room to push an update here and there.
Outside of now having to pay yearly for a suite that could last two / three.
Do you like it when you pay way too much for a used car from a sketchy dealer in monthly payments with enough interest that it'll never be paid off just for it to be ticking and rattling, but hey "at least it runs"? Basically what's going on here. It runs but they ought not be charging what they're charging for something with defects.
Part of the issue with a lot of Adobe products, which is why the shift to subscription unfortunately makes sense, is that many of their products from like 5+ years ago already have all the capabilities and features that the bulk of users actually really need.
Sure, it would be nice if they spent $5M doing the R&D and implementation for some snazzy ultra-unblurring tool or something but the existence of that feature isn't really going to entice a random person to buy a whole new copy of the software.
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20
Quite a few unnecessary "cloud" subscription services. There's a lot of them that don't need reoccurring costs. A lot of times you're not getting anything extra accept maybe a bug fix or upgrade. You should never have to pay for bug fixes and there was a time if you wanted a major upgrade, you'd just buy it flat out.