Adobe About Face?

alt4852 wrote in post #13725324
yea, the resistance to this is understandable. however, CS5 and CS5.5 users can reasonably assume that in accordance to adobe's upgrade structure, they can skip CS6 and upgrade to CS7 later down the line at a discount. if they upgraded from CS3 to CS5.5, they did get something for their money. having made that upgrade, i can attest to the fact that it was a pretty significant jump.

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It was my understanding that they didn't change their "one level down" upgrade policy, they are only temporarily lifting it to allow people to get current when 6 comes out. Once 6 is out, you'll have to have 6 to be able to upgrade to 7, otherwise you'll have to buy new. To me that's just rubbish. Right know I don't know if I'll be able to upgrade to 6 before the end of the year (when the reprieve is supposed to end), and sure as hell don't want to have to pay for a full copy of CS6, nor do I like the idea of subscriptions.

Scatterbrained wrote in post #13725527
It was my understanding that they didn't change their "one level down" upgrade policy, they are only temporarily lifting it to allow people to get current when 6 comes out. Once 6 is out, you'll have to have 6 to be able to upgrade to 7, otherwise you'll have to buy new. To me that's just rubbish. Right know I don't know if I'll be able to upgrade to 6 before the end of the year (when the reprieve is supposed to end), and sure as hell don't want to have to pay for a full copy of CS6, nor do I like the idea of subscriptions.

yea, that does sound pretty bad. as a CS5 user, i hadn't planned on upgrading to CS6, and i was hoping my copy of CS5 would allow me to upgrade to CS7 at a discount later.

hmm.. decisions, decisions.