I totally agree, its a global service and it made me think long and hard about even signing up to the service, I'm also very disapointed with the "Creative Cloud" share - we really need better commenting functions, maybe even markups & ability to share folders etc...

Cheers

Tom

Totally agree. Been looking forward to adobe cloud, but 61,49 € is like a kick in the ****. Utter disrespect for your european customers, treating them like milkers.

It's less then a month, a price of 49,99 € was communicated, even from adobe itself:

http://press.adobe.com/cgi-bin/pr.cgi?show=content;rel_id=1876

49,99 € is already a 30% surcharge, lot more than even the highest available tax in any european country. What happened in the last 20 days, that made you belive you can even double that surcharge on short notice? One year membership costs more now, than a master upgrade imported from the US. Where's the point in that? And this is your secret weapon against open source software and piracy? I'm not some overpriced market analyst, but that's not gonna work guys.

And for all US readers, that's 80 $ per month we're talking about well actually feels more like

adobe is fu**ing with us (european customers)! in the long term, this won´t pay off.

@AlanRei: yes, right now we don´t have much of a choice ... but if someone comes up with an alternative to adobes products (or at least some of them), there´s a huge chance it´ll work out well. that´s probably the time when adobe will back down – but hey, too late, sorry. whatever, just wishful thinking. in the meantime, go for cracks!

Perfect logic there, to me, this spells ABUSE.

discrimination..

So it's been a year, seems nothing at all was done internally, regarding prices or many things otherwise.

foljs wrote:

 

Perhaps we should report Adobe to the European Commission? A hefty fine for abusing their European customers (like Microsoft was fined with) can do wonders to fix things.

Adobe seems to fail to even begin to listen to the outcries from longstanding and loyal customers, but if their profits and sales get hampered perhaps then they might look to focus on how they hurt themselves by harming their consumers. Historically however Adobe seems too inept to see or understand even basic customers needs (lack of long standing bug fixes, features introduced decades late or missing, removing perpetual licenses for consumers, lies and misinformation concerning the Creative Cloud, etc.). The list is long regarding Adobe's failures to its customers in pursuit of profits and the lengths in which they will go to obtain them.