Charging money for software is perfectly fine. But marketing a "monthly" subscription but having a yearly lock-in is anti-consumer. My guess is you don't know about that part? If you subscribe to $9.99/mo photoshop you can't cancel two months in without paying 75% of your remaining subscription cost for the entire year.
Adobe’s billing practices use all kinds of dark patterns though. Let’s say you have an annual subscription billed monthly that renews on January 1. When the monthly charge comes through on the 1st of January (like it has every month) and you realize your one year subscription is up and would like to cancel most places would either (a) refund the January 1 charge and immediately shut off your service or (b) keep the January 1 charge and shut off your service at the end of the month. But Adobe, Adobe opts for (c) na-na-poo-poo read the fine print - we got you for another year of monthly charges, sucker!
it depends on the product. After Effects you can pay monthly and cancel anytime. Photoshop only has yearly subscriptions paid either monthly or all at once.
Some people who buy don't see the "annual subscription" detail and then whine later
They specifically hide the details of the yearly subscription when you signup, and it’s the default option. The renewal, regardless of purchase date, is jan 1, the least likely time for people to be paying attention, and the renewal notice only lists them monthly charge. When you cancel, regardless of the amount of time remaining (that you still pay for), your subscription is terminated at the end of that month.
Yeah yeah, whinge whinge… but does it really make you feel better about yourself to mock others who have been basically scammed out of money by not reading the fine print?
Does it really matter which company does this kind of thing?
That seems quite mean to me… and that uncaring corporate profit at the cost of everything else is “the Adobe way”.
The other posts about Adobe wanting to create a paid marketplace to “monetise” blender seems to be the reason they’re doing this.
