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by ocdtrekkie 3823 days ago
Not just 100% market saturation, but often "no real reason to upgrade". Adobe CS2 is actually offered for free download off Adobe's website, and it does 98% of what anyone needs Creative Suite for anyways. The biggest problem is it doesn't recognize some features of newer Creative Suite files, like folders of layers in Photoshop.

I have a Photoshop CS5 license, and I can't ever conceive of any reason I'd pay for CC. I have gotten my money's worth out of Photoshop CS5, and I'll continue to get that value, but I don't use Photoshop nearly enough to ever justify a monthly cost.

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I think that they host CS2 for the sake of letting existing license holders continue using the software, and public access is just an obvious side effect iirc.