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You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by neya »

Fuck Adobe. When Creative Cloud was launched, the CEO promised that he would support existing CS6 customers like myself who had paid a lot of money for the master collection. And then, few years later, they announced they wouldn't support CS6 much anymore (atleast for Mac OS X Catalina users).

After getting screwed royally, I shut down all my accounts with them and switched to Serif's Affinity Photo and Designer which are the equivalents of Photoshop and Illustrator which are two of the most used software packages for me.

They had a 50% off sale going on during the pandemic and I think honestly it was worth every single penny and more and it has already paid for itself from a new client project.

Fuck Adobe. We should all be boycotting them for the way they treat their customers.

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Post by _0o6v »

SomeHacker44 wrote: post #186
underwater wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's cheap for professional use, but it's very expensive for amateurs and occasional users. I was using Lightroom to manage my catalogue of photos. I'd open up Photoshop and Lightroom maybe a dozen times a year. It was nice to have them available but they were effectively costing me $20 each use. When Adobe products were an upfront payment I could choose to buy a product and keep it through multiple release cycles, w…

What did you switch to from Lightroom?

If using Fuji or Sony, there is Capture One Express, which is a basic RAW transformer, catalogue and the ability to do some basic editing. For a hobbyist it's pretty good - and free!

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by tomc1985 »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #240

I found this week that Adobe Fireworks CS6 no longer activates with a Creative Cloud subscription. I’ve been a Creative Cloud customer since launch but now have to crack my copy of Adobe Fireworks CS6 to use it. Horrific thought for me since I hate using hacks to run software (who the hell really knows what is in there) but I can’t find another way to use it legally (no one has a copy for sale second hand). I’d switc…

Just curious, what is Fireworks used in?

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Post by ShinTakuya »

pfranz wrote: post #223
potency wrote: post #128

> The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired. Oh come on. Surely a company with the resources of Adobe can figure out a way to keep an activation server running. In fact I'll bet you could find one competent sysadmin to keep it running indefinitely. I hate when companies spew out obvious utter B.S. like this.

A lot of game studios release a final patch removing DRM. That would have been nice.

Even if Adobe were that generous, I'd argue the situation is different. All Adobe product releases are just evolutions of the same fundamental products, meaning making a previous version free diminishes the value of the newest version. For game developers, removing DRM can drive sales for the sequel since most games have a story and players want to see what happens next.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

savant_penguin wrote: post #54

Just swap "Adobe cs2" for a car so it gets a lot funnier >>Sir, you are no longer allowed to use your car >But I paid for it! It's my car! >>Our aging servers had to be retired >Can't you just turn off the checking so it won't cost you anything and I can keep using my car? >>No sir, without the checking people would start pirating the car > But you don't even sell this car anymore! So much so you don't even want to k…

The car manufacturers do it by stopping selling parts. That's OK when it's easy for a 3rd party to fill in the gaps but I do wonder how this will pan out with modern EV's.

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Post by cecja »

dorkwood wrote: post #147
egonschiele wrote: post #77

In the last month I've returned two pieces of Adobe software and canceled a yearly subscription. I've been seeing ads for the AI features in photoshop all over twitter this week. It's pretty clear what their business strategy is -- just keep working on the tech and assume people will buy their software because it's the only one with the hot tech thing. It's ironic that for a company that caters to designers, artists…

> It's ironic that for a company that caters to designers, artists and product folks, all their products have such poor UI. That's not really who they're catering to anymore, though. Not primarily, anyway. If you pay attention to the way Adobe communicates in recent years, it's all about the "democratization" of design tools. They want their new tech to look like magic to regular consumers. It doesn't need good UI. I…

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Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by vr46 »

interestica wrote: post #76

I seriously think this was the last straw for Adobe and I. I just wanted to install an older version of an app (that I've paid for!) on an older computer. I've literally spent thousands of dollars on software that I can no longer use for no reason other than that they will no longer allow me to. The worst part seems to be that they've just killed links and information about this - so you have people presuming they ca…

I have officially given up on Adobe after 28 years, too. Even with the new features in Potatochop/Lightroom on image protection. I can't run my old software, or I can't obtain my old software, and CC is just a shitshow of processes permanently running and sucking up battery power.

DaVinci Resolve is amazing. I'm becoming better and better with GIMP. CaptureOne is crappier to use but has much better output. Lightroom iOS works fine for freebie Instagram pics.

Re: You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have the original disks

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Post by netsharc »

interestica wrote: post #189
Jasper_ wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe part of this is because Dolby is suing Adobe, saying they mandate certain pricing requirements in the license agreements, and so Adobe has responded by pulling old versions of their software with support for Dolby file formats. [0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6002319/Dolbyvsad...

I think in the latest iteration of Media Encoder it can no longer accept MKV containers.... I'm wondering if it was also tied to some license issue.

Huh, but MKV is Matroska, and it's a free-to-use open standard...
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