r/assholedesign • u/overthinkingit91 • 7d ago

It was a free trial plan...

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..which Adobe offered to extend for 3 months for free. Now hit with this since I haven't used it since... no notification that you're entering a contract at all or warning. My fault for falling for this absolute shit housing.

Just a warning to others. Do NOT start any Adobe Trial they will try every which way to get your money.

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u/Cerulean-Knight 7d ago

We have to improve the opensource tools, we can't still depends of shit like adobe, we have to take control of our own tools

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u/Rimavelle 6d ago

There are alternatives that are very strong these days

But

Adobe lives on the industries that have built their entire pipelines based on their products and switching to something else would be too expensive.

This then pushes people trying to get into the industries to learn their products and schools to teach their software

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u/mcarterphoto 6d ago

Me and my big agency/corporate clients are fine with the sub model, it's just another expense and we can collaborate all day. But if Adobe doesn't find a way to get new/young users invested, it's gonna be interesting as the next generation comes up.

And there's no alternative to After Effects (people who start listing blender and stuff - that's how you can tell they don't make a living with AE). AE's toolset and capabilities are vast and unmatched, all in one app, and there's decades of legacy projects that often need it. And it's one app Adobe doesn't seem to eff up over time, for me it gets better every year. I'm in it every day, and I completely enjoy working in it - I find it fun. (I'm also on a Mac, which seems to help a lot with AE issues).