Comments on: Adobe rips off / the wraps on Catalyst

By: Alan Ralph

Alan Ralph — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:54:04 +0000

I got lucky in 2007, I was in New York for a week and picked up a copy of Adobe CS3 Web Premium whilst I was there, saving a not inconsiderable amount of money in the process. I’m not planning on upgrading to CS4 any time soon – the upgrade cost just doesn’t justify it for me. And can someone explain to me why it should cost *more* to be able to download it direct from Adobe, as opposed to purchasing a DVD-ROM of it?

That said, I’m not going to go torrent CS4 – CS3 works just fine for me right now. Maybe by the time CS5 rolls around they’ll have something that I actually want to upgrade to, and will have gotten a clue about upgrade pricing.

What really saddens me? I was invited to take an online survey in late 2007 by Adobe, where they are getting feedback on possible upgrade pricing for CS4 – at the time, that gave me hope that they might be listening to customers. But as it turned out, it looks like they took that feedback and promptly binned it…

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By: phakebrill

phakebrill — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:22:39 +0000

Couldn’t agree more with Mr Adobe. I don’t blame a single person for downloading Adobe Software via Torrents just because they can. Granted, if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t use it, but it’s so clearly obvious that this country is being ripped off right, left and centre! Power to the people.

Personally, I wouldn’t use their software… I won’t even use the free reader software out of principle. They can cram it up their adobes.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:32:44 +0000

Exchange rates are just an excuse. If that was truly the reason why would Adobe prevent UK customers from downloading from the USA website and paying in dollars? If you are a UK customer you have to go to the UK website and pay in pounds.

The fact is they are charging higher prices in the UK because they can. They add insult to injury by lying about the reason for it.

By: David Coveney

David Coveney — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:26:03 +0000

Having just shelled out on the execrable Fireworks CS4 for Windows, I have to say that there’s a good chance we won’t be buying another Adobe product for as long as we can avoid it.

Lots of things are broken in their software, it’s buggy, often slow, and extremely expensive. All I can say is that this must be a good time to be a rival. We have the MS Expression suite, and while it does do some things well, it’s still not quite there… but another version along and I feel it could be an excellent, and much cheaper, alternative.

By: Mr Adobe

Mr Adobe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:33:34 +0000

No wonder people download via torrents when Adobe tries to rip off Britain, well Adobe people are ripping you off how do you like that.