@LMSC Yeah I agree, they’d do well to release a consumer version of LR at a lower price/free.
I’m a designer so get the full Creative Suite (even though I use like 4 apps from it) and actually much prefer the subscription to the ‘good old days’ when you’d have to buy the Master Collection for four figure prices every year. Adobe used to be really hot on raiding commercial studios using cracked versions too.
Piracy is probably one of the reasons they moved to the current model.
However for individuals, £10-12 a month for Lightroom is a bit rich. Their photography plan is reasonably good value though with LR and PS bundled with storage for a tenner a month.
I have to say periodic subscriptions have made creative software a lot more accessible. Things like Cinema4D you’d have to pay thousands for even if you just needed it for one project, whereas now you can just subscribe for a month and drop it.
