My perpetual yearly maintenance expires in August 2019 (purchased it in August 2018.) Can I expect the same quality up of updates (maintenance) for the 6-7 months that I paid for? Or will the "crew" be working on updating there letterheads, resumes, and Adobe stuff like company training and integration into CC? Should I be afraid of installing an update to Designer or Paint before my yearly maintenance ends?
Like many others, I maintain an Adobe free workflow and will continue that in the future.
I have the same question. (My perpetual license expires in November of this year, and I wonder, too, if there will be any real updates and if the answer is yes, will they actually be safe to install them now with Adobe having their hands in the jar.)
Like others, I've also wondered why Allego couldn't just raise the price if they needed the money to expand. But I guess Adobe offered a bigger amount than what they could have gotten from us, their customers. Plus, apparently, Adobe has been grooming Allego for quite some time for this.
For Adobe, it makes sense to acquire Substance: I imagine they lost a lot of customers who didn't need Photoshop anymore for texturing. And for studios and people who already pay subscription to Adobe this might not be a big deal. But for those of us who refuse to go the subscription route (especially with Adobe) and don't want to lose the possibility of having perpetual licenses this is quite tragic.