* Locked-in (for various reasons) userbase moved in to subscription model en masse, begrudgingly and complainingly
* Now, as soon as you stop subscription, your software stops working, and your catalogue will not work with pre-subscription files
We can debate semantics of "turned on the screws" and "screwed over", but take it on my word that most of us are feeling thus :). Yes we were hoisted by own petard and choices.
I'm not criticising that. I'm saying if you have a copy of the version you bought (or pirated!) then you aren't locked out of your content back in the day.
That's not locking you out of your content, though. If Adobe vanished then we wouldn't say that they locked us out of our files when a new chipset came along. I don't think they have a mandate to deliver future changes to their software for nothing that maintain chipset support for anything we might buy.
Didn't they go well beyond CS2 though? Why did you pick such an old version? We ran Adobe on Intel Macs well before SaaS. In fact, we were running Adobe Premiere before Final Cut was released.
