Adobe Will Only Offer Photoshop CS6 Upgrade Price to CS5 Owners

  • Michael Zhang · Nov 16, 2011
 

If you’ve been waiting to upgrade Photoshop CS3 or CS4 to CS6 when it’s released sometime next year, here’s some bad news: the upgrade price won’t apply to you. Starting with CS6, Adobe will be enforcing a new upgrade policy:

[...] we are changing our policy for perpetual license customers. In order to qualify for upgrade pricing when CS6 releases, customers will need to be on the latest version of our software (either CS5 or CS5.5 editions). If our customers are not yet on those versions, we’re offering a 20% discount through December 31, 2011 which will qualify them for upgrade pricing when we release CS6.

The existing policy is that customers with software from three versions back quality for upgrade pricing. For example, owners of CS2, CS3, and CS4 and upgrade to CS5. Buying the full version of Photoshop CS5 right now costs nearly $500, while the upgrade is only priced at ~$150.

(via Adobe via PhotoWalkthrough)

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  • 101brokenthings

    typical example of corporate greed and loss of contact with its real customer base.photo shop will eventually price itself out of the market from the bottom up.people like me at the low end will not upgrade for many years if at all. adobe will be left with corporations and pros forced to use photo shop because the cant afford retraining time. as the comparative price increases the pro’s will start to bite the bullet and look else where forcing adobe to increase the price even more.and so on and so on…….even the vast money grabbing giant that is microsoft realises that people dont have limitless ammounts of money and they do have a total monopoly on the market.
    sadly we live in a world ruled by accountants who are all slaves to the same thinking IF I AM NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY SELLING MY PRODUCT I MUST INCREASE THE PRICE.
    Note these are the same people who add up all the pirated copies of their software and mutiply that by the retail price and come up with  how much they have lost to piracy.
    suitable profit is fine but abject greed will bring them to tipping point eventually.

    sell it for £50;00 a pop and the world and his mate will buy it just because they can.

  • 101brokenthings

    typical example of corporate greed and loss of contact with its real customer base.photo shop will eventually price itself out of the market from the bottom up.people like me at the low end will not upgrade for many years if at all. adobe will be left with corporations and pros forced to use photo shop because the cant afford retraining time. as the comparative price increases the pro’s will start to bite the bullet and look else where forcing adobe to increase the price even more.and so on and so on…….even the vast money grabbing giant that is microsoft realises that people dont have limitless ammounts of money and they do have a total monopoly on the market.
    sadly we live in a world ruled by accountants who are all slaves to the same thinking IF I AM NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY SELLING MY PRODUCT I MUST INCREASE THE PRICE.
    Note these are the same people who add up all the pirated copies of their software and mutiply that by the retail price and come up with  how much they have lost to piracy.
    suitable profit is fine but abject greed will bring them to tipping point eventually.

    sell it for £50;00 a pop and the world and his mate will buy it just because they can.

  • 101brokenthings

    Sorry for the double entry by the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dinoguy01

    They are gonna fail anyways. Photoshop is the most highest pirated software because of their greedy prices. Who the hell needs to pay that price? If they made it much cheaper, they could make a hella profit!

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