Adobe announced today that it will no longer sell new versions of Adobe Creative Suite – still selling and supporting CS6 – but will now only offer new versions and updates to those using Adobe Creative Cloud. That means if you want new versions of Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, etc., you’ll need to sign up for the service which ranges in price from $20 per moth for a single program to $50 a month for every Adobe program (well at least all the ones I’m familiar with). See a list of programs here.

You can read Adobe’s press release here. 

Nofilmschool.com has a post up and there will surely be a lively discusion in the comments. 

I personally subscribe to the Creative Cloud. I jumped on it last month while Adobe was offering $30 per month for the entire Creative Cloud service, with free updates and upgrades. If I were to purchase CS6 at the time it would have cost $1800. To me it seemed like a good deal and feasible way to own software that I need. I wish this would have been available when I was in college. There is no way I would (or could) put up $1800, but I can do $30 a month. That’s $360 a year for every Adobe product I need. I might hesitate if I had to pay $50, though would (and will) probably give in when the time comes. With all that said, I haven’t had any hiccups using the cloud and haven’t even had a chance to use any other features aside from the software.

I know a lot of people will not be happy about this. People love options, and this just takes one away. What are your thoughts?

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Video above from the Adobe Cloud site, displaying some features of the service.