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… The news came from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney himself in a presentation at Unreal Fest 2023. …

… He claimed that the pricing model will not be “unusually expensive or unusually inexpensive,” and that its pricing structure will be similar to subscription services like Maya or Photoshop. …

    • mihnt@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Oh, bundles. This is just cable TV/phone plans in another form.

      Edit: Don’t downvote who I responded to. They are correct. Not their fault Adobe is crap.

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        1 year ago

        Eh, would you prefer that to be US$20 each instead? Why are you ideologically opposed to something when there are benefits?

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          1 year ago

          I’d rather not pay a subscription in the first place.

          I’ll never be a fan of sub bundles that it’s obvious that it’s all about maximum profit for the company. Why is the only bundle PS and LR? (Besides the 3d modeling crap.) Or using everything in the cloud. Why is there no “your choice bundle”? What if I just need Premiere and Acrobat? Or any other combination for that matter.

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            Because it’s aimed at photographers who raised a huge stink in the first place (I was one of them).

            You don’t have to use it in the cloud too, all my camera photos are sitting in my drives, none of them have been uploaded to Adobe’s servers.

            PS and LR at this price is cheaper than the perpetual licenses if I upgraded every other cycle, so it’s been cheaper for me. Of course there’s still cheaper alternatives for PS now (Affinity Photo is really good), but since I still use LR a lot and the cost is bearable, I stay on it.