One of the most exciting features of Adobe CS6: subscriptions

One of my biggest gripes with newer versions of Adobe's Creative Suite was the price. Even with the new features, the new features and new improvements of large with each version of the software suite, the cost of upgrading every 1-2 years can get a little stiff and a little frustrating and result in a tendency to cling to older versions which are able to do the job, even if it is not as fast or easy.

With CS6, but Adobe will implement its own version of the SaaS model in the creative cloud. For those who are not familiar with the term, it means "Software as a Service" and allows full as a result of creative subscription for a price of the subscription-based access monthly-$50 per month for an annual subscription, $75 per month, one month to the next, with some applications available for individual licences for much less (as long as you pay on an annual contract). An advantage evident is that it allows content creators, who previously may have felt obliged pirate by the price level, legitimize and use a legal version of the software with a more reasonable monthly expense.

The downside? Adobe is not Rent-A-Center, and it has no lease-purchase option. You can pay each month until what you bought back all the price of the suite, the software would not be even be yours; the second that you cancel your subscription, you lose access. But it's rather a moot point, when it would take years to fully pay the cost of a subscription per month. Then we could be on CS7 CS8 and can simply transfer the subscription without ever paying full-price for the suite CS6. With cloud storage included in the package, which is not too bad at all.

I know that I will definitely use the subscription service during a CS5.5 upgrade, although I haven't decided if I will use it just for Flash and Photoshop, or go for the full range. How about you? You would like to subscribe to Adobe CS6, pay the full cost or let it slide fully?