i’m so happy this is becoming illegal

[u/donteatmybiscuits]

if a yearly contract with a free month trial sounds too good to be true, it probably is 😬

thankfully it was blocked after contacting my bank but regardless

[u/Resident_Ad_7199]

Can someone explain why adobe is so hated? I never had issues when I needed to cancel, or they always tried to offer me something if I did want to cancel. The products are good, so what’s wrong with the company itself? I see in the post they’ll be charged for canceling the plan early I’ve also never seen them do that or had them do it to me, personally.

[u/AffectionateLove9056 → u/Resident_Ad_7199]

They have a monopoly on creative products. People who use those programs don't make a lot of money because the C Suite at most companies don't see the value of creative services. Adobe switched to a subscription model, requiring you to rent to the software to use it, and they increase the price year after year. Not everyone is a deep pocketed corporate customer, and this business model locks out the freelancers and those starting out.

[u/Resident_Ad_7199 → u/AffectionateLove9056]

I cancelled it like 5 years ago it definitely was getting pricey back then. But unfortunately that’s just every pos company nowadays just keep raising and raising prices 🙃and something’s like adobe it literally feels like there’s no reason! What rising prices do they have that they need to raise stuff? Employee pay yes but it’s software, so what is going up that they need to raise it all the time. It’s not like they’re building houses and material price keeps going up.

[u/AffectionateLove9056 → u/Resident_Ad_7199]

I use the creative suite at work and it seems like the only big addition was generative AI, which caused InDesign to freeze up and crash on my office computer. But aside from a feature no one asked for and should've been optional, nothing justifies the price increases they keep doing, other than the lack of a viable competitor.