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I predict in 10 years 3ds max will be obsolete and Blender will become the new standard. By now, all the young people use Blender. I'd say you can see the same with 3ds max, which once was the undoubted king of 3d content creation software.

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Now that Adobe has locked out most of the hobbyists, where is the next generation of experts going to come from? Who is going to pay $600 annually just to practice with Adobe XD instead of using a free competitor? Photoshop became popular because it was so easy for everyone to get a cheap old copy and start using it.

'you just wanted to moan about the subscription'. Accordingly, they don't care about new products. People like my company do not wish to continue being a customer. But our mind and our loyalty is long gone. So technically you are correct that we're still a paying customer so we technically haven't left yet. If XD files become worthless without an Adobe subscription, then we're not interested in producing them. That's why I said in my original comment: 'XDs only chance is a truly open file format that other apps can also use'. We decided not to use it before even evaluating it, because it would increase our vendor lock-in. With that in mind, the fact that XD would lock us into yet another proprietary file format from Adobe is a death blow. As soon as any app with good enough Photoshop PSD and Adobe Illustrator AI import comes around, we'll jump ship. But we are only subscribers because they are holding our data hostage with their proprietary file format. And my company pays for a subscription for me, so I'm 1 additional user and $200 (or whatever) in additional monthly revenue. Yes, their cloud subscription is growing in numbers. You can both be present physically and absent with your mind. I also lost access to my old files there. Suddenly, Marmoset - their long-term competitor - became very attractive at a one-time $119 for students for a perpetual license. It went from $99 one-time on Steam to $49/month (min 12 months, so $588 annually) as part of Creative Cloud. Similarly, the Substance3D communities became a ghost town more or less overnight when Adobe purchased the company and then removed Indie pricing. All the hobbyists went to Gimp and Inkscape.

Back then, plugins for hobbyist power users were a big market. So I've been using Adobe products for a long time. If others do the same, then XDs only chance is a truly open file format that other apps can also use.ĮDIT: If I remember correctly, I released my first self-developed plug-in for Photoshop 5 around 1999. I'm still being held hostage by them to access my old files, but for every new project, I go out of my way to avoid using any Adobe-specific file format. So I'd say XD never had a chance because it launched after the customers left.

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Now, they would need to spend much more on person-bound license rentals. Adobe burned all bridges with their customers when they introduced CreativeCloud, that universally hated DRM app that randomly maxes out your CPU.Īlso, before, companies, schools, and universities could purchase a few perpetual licenses and use those for teaching.