I had a dream, that after a long career I would be able to retire and pursue my true interests, one of which was Substance.
I like Substance Designer so much, the artwork on my YouTube channel of the same name I use here was the first graph I made that worked and has been for years. If you look at my channel, ALL of the featured channels are CGI related and none relate to cooking although that is what I teach. Some are companies, some are individuals; even Vincent is there. Adobe and Autodesk are conspicuously absent.
I cancelled my subscription here yesterday and took the $49 buyout option. Fifteen years ago, I had been working at the head office of my corporation. There was an annual conference where there was great talk of a merger. I thought about it for 3 days, then applied for a lateral move with a significant pay cut. I gave up all my corporate powers and moved down from the mountaintop to the least and most secure position in retail. Everyone though I was under too much stress and had lost my mind.
A few months later, there was a great offer from the mothership: Leave the Western Division and come teach your brothers in the main Eastern division. The smart people looked at each other, took the severance package and quit. The naive sold their homes and made the move cross-country.
A few months after that, the Western head office where I had worked was liquidated. The people that had not quit or moved were given severance pay and fired with no reason given, after nearly 30 years of service. Many came to see me in tears, seeking closure...what had I known? I had no inside information, only a clear understanding of how large corporations work. They are psychopaths and there is an excellent documentary called ‘The Corporation’ that deals with this topic.
To finish the story, several months later, all those who had uprooted their lives, homes, and families to work with Eastern counterparts were let go. A few, the excellent, survived but the majority had simply had their knowledge wrung from them and were then liquidated in turn.
For my part, I toughed it out to the finish line until December of last year. I will settle for the perpetual licenses as I will no longer bend knee to any corporate hegemon, especially now that I am a freedman.
You are naive in the extreme to believe that you are in a position to dictate terms to Adobe.
It is like believing healthcare exists to make people better. Healthcare exists because the dead can’t shop.
