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Adobe CS3: not because I want to, but because I have to.
I am currently downloading the 3.4 Gigabyte monster that is Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, a suite of software that I am sure I will get a lot of use out of.
Unfortunately, I had to pay $1,599 for the upgrade. I own CS-level versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, and the latest version of Dreamweaver, to boot (all these programs, plus Flash and Acrobat, are included in this version of the suite). Now what really steamed me when I was pricing the upgrade is that because I bought all of these items separately, I had to pay a thousand dollars more for the upgrade than if I had bought all of these as one of the earlier Creative Suite versions. I paid more to buy them separately (I was upgrading older versions of the programs one by one), and yet Adobe is AGAIN making me pay more to upgrade. This smacks of double-dipping.
I priced individual upgrades, incidentally, assuming I had to buy a full version of Flash (I had a copy years ago but no serial number or install CD survived two office moves) and upgrades of the rest, I would spend about the same amount of dough...a hundred bucks less, if I didn't upgrade Dreamweaver, and didn't buy a new version of Acrobat--both programs I could do without. But I really need Flash for a project that I am working on ASAP, and so there you have it.
Adobe: I love your programs, but this upgrade policy is dumb. You are penalizing some of your most loyal users by making them pay more--twice. Please rethink this policy. Allow people who own a majority of programs in your Creative Suite packages to upgrade for the $599 price--you'll probably see a whole lot more people paying for it if you do.
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