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Adobe Rant

Alright, I do this about every 3-6 months to Cor and I can’t at the moment so you guys are getting this.

I fucking hate Adobe.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love their software!! Which is why I’m so angry at them and why I hate them so much. 

I ended up going to this magnet school for middle school and there was what I think was a mandatory tech class for the first two years and an optional one for the third. I took it all three years, and while I wasn’t that great at anything in particular, I was trained how to do a bit of everything (besides coding, I opted out of that to ditz around in Blender and now kinda regret it?) in Photoshop, Flash/That-Which-Is-Now-Called-Animate, and taught the super basics of tossing together an amature website in Dreamweaver. We got basic instruction in Blender, as well as this other program I can never remember. It was all on Mac, so familiar territory for me since I’ve been penned in by my dad’s obsession with Apple devices despite their outrageous prices.

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Trouble was that I was trained on CS4. So by the time I got to high school/college, Adobe had moved out of the single payment model of the CS line and into their money grubbing subscription based Creative Cloud (CC) line. 

Instead of buying a program for a one time only sticker price that was admittedly a crazy amount to begin with, you now can only purchase the license to the software. You need a license to use it, which previously came with the one time purchase and was lifetime/as long as that thing survived. Haha well they only let you get that license and thus access to the software now on a monthly or annual subscription. Instead of a swift kick to the nuts/ovaries of $300-$600, you now are slowly bled of $20-$50+ A MONTH. 

This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if they had continued supporting their CS line, but nope. Adobe pretty much dropped it. Not only that, but now students are forced into this bullshit monthly plan instead of getting a much MUCH less expensive single rate from their university or college when they are required to use things like Photoshop, Illustrator (I’m going to have to get that soon which is part of why I’m so pissed), Flash/Animate, or anything else. Some universities do offer a decreased yearly rate for Adobe CC, but that’s still around $150 for my uni, and not only is it restricted to the first 1000 students that apply for it, but the reduced annual rate only lasts for ONE YEAR. Hi, last I checked, a degree takes anywhere from two to four to six or more years, you fucks! It’s like Adobe thinks every college student goes “HERPDEDERP IM A COLLEGE STUDENT IMMA BE MAKIN BIG MONEY AFTER A YEAR OF EDUCATION!”

I went browsing the Adobe questions forum and found someone asking if Adobe is going to go back to the single payment (which they could still rake in $500 a pop if they wanted jfc) system because they couldn’t afford the monthly payments. 

Some lady with a star next to her name and a ‘certified adobe professional user’ or some shit says, and I’m quoting here, “If you can’t afford it, you’re probably not ready for professional software yet. Try Inkscape, it’s free.” 

EXCUSE YOU?!

Lady, you don’t even KNOW this person! Offering Inkscape is a good fucking idea, yeah. But don’t preface it by snootily saying in essence, ‘oh. You’re not professional. You don’t make money off your work. You’re not good enough for professional software.”

BITCH I WAS USING THIS SHIT IN FUCKING MIDDLE SCHOOL. I WAS ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS OLD! IT’S NOT ‘PROFESSIONAL!’ IT’S WHAT’S BEEN PROVIDED ON THE MARKET AS THE COMMON FUCKING TOOL FOR MULTIPLE JOBS! ***THERE ARE CHILDREN ON YOUTUBE MAKING ANIMATIONS FOR FUCKING FUN!*** DON’T CALL HIM UNFUCKINGPROFESSIONAL FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD THIS $20 FUCKING DOLLARS A MONTH CREATIVE CLOUD SHIT!!

Adobe has shown absolutely no sign that they’re even listening. It’s all about draining people of money at this point and it’s working for them due to the fact that it these programs were firmly embedded in millions of jobs and lives to the point that some businesses couldn’t work without them, or people would lose tons of money while retraining on a freeware alternative due to being unable to afford the new CC software. 

I’ve been seething about this for years now. As I get deeper into my degree I’m starting to encounter reminders that for several courses after this semester I’m required to have Adobe Illustrator or a freeware equivalent which has a sketchy version for Mac that may or may not be compatible. Even in my off time/hobbies, I’ve been toying with the handful of Mac-friendly animation freewares and the learning curves for most that have the features I’d like are so steep that it’s a waste of effort and time. 

Anyway, rant not over, but deflated enough that I can go back to watching Netflix.  

Fuck you Adobe.