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Adobe deactivates CS 3
Years ago I purchased Adobe CS 3 and have been using it ever since. No issues on Windows 10 at all. Yesterday they deactivated their CS 3 servers and my entire suite of Adobe programs will stop working in 5 days. Their response is the software is dead and no longer supported and will not work on Win 10.
Their offer of replacement is that I can purchase CS 6 with a perpetual license for $650. How do you like that? Has anyone ever heard of such a blatant disregard for propriety? I am investigating a class action lawsuit. |
That is horrific customer service ... not supporting/updating is one thing, destroying products you already paid for quite another.
They likely have a clause in the terms allowing them to do it - but that doesnt make it right |
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That's fucked up.
I still use PS Elements 14 I bought in-store so I still have a hardcopy disk. Seems Adobe isn't overly concerned with customer loyalty. |
To me, that's a perfect example of why 'honest' people pirate. Pay first of course, but when something like this happens, just find a cracked copy and use with a clear conscience...
Years back, I was trying to get an entire offices 'Microsoft Office' packages activated. Fully legit, bought and paid for, and needed on about 20 workstations - One license per computer - Nothing funny going on, 20 Discks infront of me all legally bought. Would not work and after an hour or two on the phone to microsoft, still no joy... Guy whos paying me, looking at me like its my fault, so I just said did he care if the copies I put on were the 'same ones' he had paid for? He said he really didn't give a fuck as long as they were all up and running THAT DAY! So I put a cracked copy on all twenty computers and told him Id get the legit versions working at a later date... He never gave me a time to return, so I assumed he had returned the legit discs to the store, but when I came back about a year later for something else, he still had the discs in the storeroom where I had left them that day... |
Alternatively, you could possibly just run an older version of windows in a virtual box, and use it from there?
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you can try adding this to your windows10 hosts file. then it can't talk to adobe servers. close photoshop first. i've totally never tried this :winkwink::1orglaugh Code:
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com |
Yes i find it annoying, especially with software where new version does not offer absolutely nothing like ioncube.
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I would get a cracked version for sure - Fuck them...
I dumped them a long time ago..... |
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Crack it. You bought it.
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Fuck them download one of the cracks.. it's your software..
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That's messed up, I have CS3 and paid for it.
I started with ultra Dev 4. |
It's 13 year old computer software, it's kind of got to run it's course sooner or later.
So many alternatives these days, if you were ok with using ancient Adobe stuff...you can likely find replacements for free. Davinci Resolve will cover Premiere, After Effects and Audition with on program and for free. |
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I'm sure it's probably pretty easy to workaround this with a crack. If there are a lot of pissed of folks, there will be a workaround in no time, if there isn't already. |
Horrible. Worse than iTunes putting a shitty U2 album on your iPod without telling you about it. Maybe worse since you actually USE this product.
Hack time brother. What CS said, why good people go pirating and searching torrent sites for free Adobe products. |
Yeah, I heard of it when they deactivated CS which I needed to operate an old but very high end film scanner. They offered me CS2 as a replacement. even though I'd already purchased a newer version than that and only needed CS to run my scanner, which CS2 could not do.
Adobe is a company that truly has zero regard for their customers. I look forward to the day when someone else has a better entrant in every category they have a product in. |
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so you are saying you dont know how to edit your hosts file?
:upsidedow # |
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I have adobe photoshop cc 2017.
No need to connect to their servers and pay. |
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lots of cracked versions floating around... # |
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