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Why I hate Adobe Creative Cloud

Paul Kalbach

Paul Kalbach

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First of all, let me say I love Adobe apps for the most part. However, I lost the 1st entire month of of my CC subscription because it took that long to successfully download anything to the point where it could be used. I still don't know whether or not if maybe there's some corrupt files lurking somewhere that haven't reared their ugly head yet. Repeated failures over and over. Now I have to move my CC apps to a new Mac Pro. So now I have to start this crap all over again? I really resent being forced to pay a monthly subscription fee for the rest of my life if I want to go beyond CS6, especially when the process doesn't work. CHOICE is a good thing...
 
I run it on 3 machines, no issues. Downloads are very, very fast, considering the size.
 
I love how my CS6 and CC can't both be active at the same time, I have to disable CC to enable CS6 to use Encore, which isn't part of Adobe CC, then disable CS6 and re-enable CC. Lots of fun.
 
I might be looking into FCP for that reason. Just wish to ask. How well are the Xml and Edls from Final cut working with resolve? I'm still usinf the 5.5 suite and to be honest I dont see much point in upgrading at the moment on my current setup. All I wish is better integration with resolve.
 
Im loving the Future of FCPX
 
I dropped adobe when they went CC and use FCPX. It works pretty good, but is a different concept to get your head round.

I had XML issues, but now using resolve 10.1 and FCPX 10.1 and XML is working fine. CC is not for me.
 
Shiblon Wixom said:
I love how my CS6 and CC can't both be active at the same time, I have to disable CC to enable CS6 to use Encore, which isn't part of Adobe CC, then disable CS6 and re-enable CC. Lots of fun.
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Not on my machine.

I run CS6 Encore alongside all of my cc apps.
 
I think that it is a terrible business model because they cannot guarantee the single thing that counts - access to the software you have paid for on a regular consistent basis. I kind of have to get "permission" to use the software on a monthly basis.
 
So far ceative cloud has worked perfectly for us...and it does coexist with CS6 just fine. Also feature updates have been much faster than in the past. Finally CC is actually cheaper than any past adobe suite. You are getting hang up a little too much on this "I don't own the software" stuff..... Guess what? I own cs2 and cs3 and cs4 etc....what good does this out of date software that I own do for me now?? Absolutely NOTHING! As a matter of fact I trashed them because I have no need for them.....I may as well have rented them instead of buying them as the result would have been the same.
 
Right now Adobe is keeping the prices down to get people to sign up. My fear is that in a year or two they are going to start jacking the price up. After all they have a corporate responsibility to their shareholders to maximize profits.
 
Jim Collins said:
Right now Adobe is keeping the prices down to get people to sign up. My fear is that in a year or two they are going to start jacking the price up. After all they have a corporate responsibility to their shareholders to maximize profits.
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At which point we can all jump ship to something else.
 
Been on Creative Cloud since it's inception with no issues and on multiple machines.

I can certainly understand why some folks don't like the subscription model, but you'd be pounding sand if you think the model will regress back to the way it used to be. Its just not going to happen. Ever.

If you don't like it, I'd start looking in other places. Editing isn't an issue, but that photoshop thingy is gonna be a pain to replace.
 
I wouldn't mind CC if it was reliable. I've had many problems with it. Freezing, crashes, can't log on, forced to hunt through dozens of forum posts trying to find answers while I have a deadline looming. It seems great at first to have a way to keep your programs up to date, but every update seems to mess something up. Currently can't use Speedgrade in SLI mode, for instance, thanks to the latest update. Took an hour out of my life trying to figure that one out.

Hopefully these are just growing pains. I miss the old days though.
 
There's no reason to "disable" CC, just to use Encore CS6. I run both simultaneously just fine. And what's the complaint about downloads? I downloaded all the apps I need in a few hours. If you want, you can save the downloads to a DVD or USB stick for future installations.
 
I have to ask what kind of terrible bandwidth you must have to take so long to get the apps installed? I can get them installed on both my machines at home in about an hour and my bandwidth sucks at the house! And I've got it installed at my office on 2 machines as well and on our field computers also. Perhaps its your machine or internet provider that you are actually upset at and redirecting your anger? I just can't relate to the issues you've had nor have i heard anyone else complain of downloading the software taking a month. Sounds like something else is going on. If you don't like the business model that's another story but you may want to take a closer look at what may potentially be another issue you're upset with entirely.
 
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