![]() ![]() But if Adobe can offer that, and people are prepared to pay for it, good luck to them. It would no longer be possible to skip a version because you didn't care about any of the new features - you'd get the upgrade and pay for it, like it or not. The real reason for the switch for CC is pretty obvious - a large, endless revenue stream for Adobe. Some pirates found hacks to circumvent it, but they've also managed to circumvent the system in various versions of CC, so piracy didn't end with CS. CS already had an anti-piracy system, the online activation we've been discussing in this thread. Piracy was of course one excuse for that, but doesn't really make sense as the main reason for Adobe making the switch to CC. Killing off CS in general is another issue. I don't have to trust Affinity to be nice, because an activation-free product puts the power in my hands, as far as anything that isn't Open Source can.Ĭlick to expand.I meant killing off the activation-free versions for those who had already paid. I wouldn't expect them to provide active support for one of their retired products, any more than I'd expect the gas company to service that old boiler, but Adobe have put a padlock on it and now refuse to hand out keys (though the cost to do so would be trivial). Customers may not be shouted at by their help team, but if they want to do something like activate that old copy of CS they are stonewalled and often directed to a community forum that has no power to help (where an ACP will generally scold the hapless user for not upgrading to CC years ago, and tell them they should be grateful Adobe allowed them to use the old package for so long).Ī company that locks its customers out of expensive software they might have bought just over a decade ago (with the only alternative a rental scheme they have to keep paying for indefinitely) just isn't a company I want to give any more money to, even if CC were half the price it is (I do grind my own coffee beans at home, but don't mind paying for espresso when I'm out). But to me the way Adobe operates amounts to a sort of corporate abuse. It has a perpetual licence, and the version you buy from the Affinity website doesn't require online activation.Ĭlick to expand.I'm sure I'd be deeply annoyed by any company whose customer service representatives treated me badly (like a certain cellphone service provider I could mention). PS7 was never made free to download, so any versions you see online are pirated.Īffinity Photo is the best Photoshop alternative I've seen. The installation and swap file need to be on a partition smaller than 1TB, and it can only save files to such a partition. Photoshop 7, the version before the original CS, will still install and run on Windows 10 with some limitations. Presumably they won't for CS5 or 6 either. Adobe has not provided an activation-free alternative. Some forum posts on the Adobe support site claimed it could still be activated, but old installations couldn't be deactivated to reset your installation count, so activation might not be possible. One Adobe page claimed it could no longer be activated. ![]() I've read contradictory things about CS4 activation. Someone who is selling the CDs might perhaps have saved and kept the new keys and installers, though they weren't widely advertised. If you can get hold of these special installers and keys (the ones on the original CDs won't work) it is still possible to install and run CS3 on recent versions of Windows 10. Unfortunately this site has also been deleted. When the CS3 servers were switched off, Adobe provided activation-free installers in a more complicated way, requiring purchasers to input their original licence keys and receive new keys and installers in return. The last time I tried it, there were problems, though I didn't really pursue it. Whether it will work on a current version of Windows is another question. This site has now been deleted, though you can still find a mirror on the Wayback Machine at. At some point in the not too distant future, they will also presumably switch off the servers for CS5 and CS6, making it impossible to install them without some hack.Īdobe used to provide a version of CS2 on an open website, complete with special licence keys, that does not require online activation, intended for purchasers of this version who could no longer activate in the normal way when the servers had been switched off. ![]() Unfortunately, Adobe do not support activation for versions earlier than CS5 (but see below). You can't install from the CDs without this. Click to expand.All versions of CS for Windows require online activation. ![]()
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