Adobe Upgrade policy change

[radar]

Hi,

looked around but couldn't find a mention on this. Starting with Photoshop CS6, you will need to be on the previous release to upgrade. So if you are not on CS5, you will need to buy the full version of CS6. In the past, Adobe allowed to be a few releases behind in order to qualify for the upgrade price, eg to get CS5 upgrade price, you needed CS2-3-4.

Check out the post on their blog:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/20 ... ID=2159997

This seems to have been brought about with their monthly licensing model.

Cheers,

André

[ATJ]

I have a feeling that the upgrade to Lightroom 3 was only valid from Lightroom 2. I know I started with Lightroom 1 and had to provide the license number from LR1 and LR2.

[Murray Foote]

Good find. Not friendly by Adobe.

When I purchased CS, I was able to purchase a very cheap Photoshop 3 on the web plus an upgrtade to the then current edition.

This will probably drive many to Lightroom plus increasingly ageing copies of Photoshop.

[Murray Foote]

I checked the Adobe site. You can currently upgrade from Lightroom 1 or Lightroom 2 at the same price.

The Adobe Upgrade notice doesn't mention Lightroom though maybe the same change will happen there. That would be less of an issue though because the upgrade price is much less.

[Remorhaz]

FYI Scott Kelby has an open letter to Adobe on the front of his blog at the moment:

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2011/archives/22903

[stubbsy]

That sucks and is really just Adobe being greedy. Let's say they bring out a new version of CSxx every 2 years. Do you really need to upgrade that often - how many killer features would you get? The moment you miss an upgrade Adobe have a customer in the open market. if paying full price then I'd certainly take a long hard look at the competition. Interestingly I'd be more likely to upgrade every 2 versions whioch is my current habit. If this is in place my upgrade pace (and Adobe's $$$ would become sporadic).

[biggerry]

welcome to the world of real software deployment..Acad (Autodesk), Catia (Dassault) just to name a few and the rest have been doing this for years, its only a matter of time...

[chrisk]

And people still question why piracy is so rampant ? lol

[Murray Foote]

It's because large corporations are so expert at it....

[sirhc55]

Well I must say that PS6 is amazing