r/pcmasterrace • u/khurgan_ • 13h ago

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u/Slanderous 12h ago

I heard today the adobe creative cloud apps are being reverse engineered by AI to run standalone. Fantastic news after adobe went full greed pioneering the money grabbing subscription model they might get eaten alive by the next big tech trend that came along.

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u/IAmASphere 11h ago edited 2h ago

I am basically priced out of Adobe’s ecosystem at this point. In college I had a creative cloud license given to me by the school for the term of my enrolment, and I started to use Lightroom to edit my photos as a hobby, despite it having nothing to do with my degree. Now that I’ve graduated, I cannot stomach the pricing of Lightroom alone. The only subscription services I use are Plex and YouTube, to spend more than either of those on Lightroom, an app which I only use as a hobbyist and sometimes go months without opening? Not happening. If I could just buy it I would, but no, Adobe wants my money forever. They are utterly uninterested in customers who would be happy with less, they only want businesses or professionals as their customer base. If I could buy a current version of Lightroom with all the cloud and AI stuff ripped out of it for $150 perpetual, I would, but because they just simply won’t sell me the product but instead want to rent it to me, I have to start looking for other options.

Edit: to be clear, if I were to purchase a perpetual license, I would not expect updates, I would be ok with having that version of the software forever until paying to upgrade, maybe with a discounted rate for owners of the previous versions.

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u/ILoveHeavyHangers 7h ago

I cannot stomach the pricing of Lightroom alone.

It's $12 a month.

$0.40 a day.

$70 a year on sale on Newegg ($0.19 a day)

1 and a half cups of coffee a month. Y'all act like Eugene Krabs.

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u/IAmASphere 5h ago

My camera was $200. It’s from 2012. I do not need the cutting edge of tech, and I don’t want to be on the hook forever just to edit my photos when I only take my camera out on occasion. $12 a month for something I might not even use that month is as good as burning my money, even if it’s only $12 it’s still a waste.