Yeh. They are offering a good deal. Adobe are doing this for a reason though, and that's to charge it's customers more. People can physically afford to pay more if they spread the cost over small chunks.
If you think adobe will stop at double the price, we'l see. I looking forward to seeing what their pricing is in 2 or 3 years.
The current price for Photoshop CS6 is £650.
PS CC is currently being given away at £20 (if you buy LR annually, after taking into account LR 4 for £100 and LR5 for £50, so averages out £75 per year for the past 2 years).
That is more than 30 times cheaper per year.
30 times. compare to the retail licence of PS CS6. Of course, you have it forever but 30 times is 30 years' worth, in software terms, it might as well be forever.
Now, of course if you don't need PS then even £1 is £1 too much. But if you need photoshop, which I know you do, with your fake tilt/shift effect and your storyboard action, then you surely it is a bargain of an offer, and even if they hike up the price 5 times the amount you are still well better off than if you had purchased a single licence.*
So, the thinking that if/when they hike up the price. I am sure it will but we don't know when, we don't know by how much and right now it is a great deal.
*Someone is going to argue they don't purchased PS annually but even in that argument, it would take them 30 years to break even (6 years even if Adobe hike up the price to £100 per year for PS alone). So you can either stick with CS6 for 5 years for £650, or get the latest release every year for £100 (given a stupid rise amount to satisfy some people).
Of course, you can just pirate it all. But then again, we don't do that
At least not when it's a business, you can claim it as an expense anyway.
