When did Adobe kill perpetual licence?

[Byker28i]

I have Lightroom, photoshop with perpetual licences, the last versions you could do this with. Quite happy to run with these old versions

I fired up photoshop yesterday, the first time in ages and it popped up a warning saying my licence was no longer valid and I had 5 days to upgrade to a subscription based version before they disabled it.

These are proper purchased versions... When did Adobe decide perpetual didn't mean that?

[Byker28i]

havoc said:

If it helps at all, you can get occasionally-discounted subscription licences off Amazon. And you can 'stack' them in your account.

I switched to subscription Lightroom Classic + Ps (but without cloud storage) last year, and purchased two annual licences in reasonably quick succession off Amazon for £70-80 each from memory (vs the £120 it should have been). So I still have nearly 18mths of licence left and a CamelCamelCamel price alert set up.

Yes it's a PITA, but if you're a Lightroom user there's not a lot out there that gives you the same flexibility. If it's just Ps then there's more competition.

Yup I used Lightroom and Photoshop lots, not so much now as I don't use the DSLR so much now. Hence when Adobe moved to subscription I made sure I bought the last perpetual licenced version of both Lightroom and Photoshop. I have 6.14 Lightroom and Photoshop CS5.1 both bought and paid for full licence. Starting photoshop now gives

Edited by Byker28i on Tuesday 2nd April 11:45