Licensing for small-medium studios w/ AE renderfarm is HORRIBLE

CCv 1.72.2.419
Area: Volume licensing

OS: All of them

Concise description: setup of volume licenses is horrible for small-medium sized studios if there are more computers than there are artists (renderfarms)/ Useless "solutions" being given through support.

Steps to reproduce:

1. have need for more licenses than you have artists

2. don't have enough machines to buy an enterprise subscription

3. talk to support asking for any practical ways to set up per device, not per user, licensing

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I handle software installation and general IT at a small animation/ motion graphics studio.

We wanted to upgrade and get everyone on the same version of AE so we looked into buying multiple seats for CC. I THOUGHT that enterprise would work because I could create a distribution package and the package was tied to a master account instead of unique email addresses but I was told by different adobe reps over the course of the day that enterprise was either: 1. only sold for 500+ seats, 2. only sold for 150+ seats, and 3. was for government and educational institutions only (support cant seem t get their facts straight as I was told enterprise is what I needed and then told multiple times that I couldn't get enterprise for entirely different reasons). I was told to buy a Team subscription and that I would have to manually set up unique emails for every single machine on our render farm and manually accept the "team invitation" on each of those emails (yes this was the official "solution" I received from multiple people at adobe support). Well I'm sitting here right now after being locked out of gmail for creating too many accounts and still not having enough, and I don't want to start fragmenting where all these emails are being sent by starting creating yahoo addresses, etc.

The Team subscription is a huge hassle to set up unless you have unique actual people at every computer you want to install the software on, other wise it's a massive pain in the a**. And it says something about the new volume licensing policy that the official solution is to spend all day creating emails that will be used ONCE just to get CC installed on all our machines.

The fix for this is incredibly simple and I don't know why it hasn't been implemented already: Change the policy for enterprise to allow the purchase of ANY number of seats to extend support to small and medium sized businesses, it's not like we're getting a discount for purchasing enterprise subscriptions.

It's ridiculous that this has been overlooked, that I have been spending the past two days TRYING to install industry standard software on our machines, and that I haven't been able too in a reasonable fashion.