Why are Adobe products so expensive?

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Conner52 said:

Sephiroth357 said:

Conner52 said:

Sephiroth357 said:

Because they're business and company products.

 

In other words companies are willing to spend that much.

 

But they're also very good.

But GIMP is similar to Photoshop and it's free. I doubt Adobe needs that much money. 

 

This is why pirating exists.. 

Most schools, and businesses have these products. Some normal people also have these products.

 

900 bucks or 40 bucks people would still pirate...

 

 

BTW Gimp isn't as good as photoshop just like you mentioned. Why are Mercedes more expensive than Hondas? Quality.

If gimp has 40% of the features as photoshop it doesn't matter as it's free. The price doesn't justify the quality as their programs are bloated and slow, but sadly my school uses them.

 

If it was $40 I would say piracy of photoshop would halve. If it was $40 I would have no problem paying. 

They might get more purchases, but to warrant dropping the price from $900 to $40, their sales would have to go up by 2250%. For sales to go up by that much just from 50% of the pirates switching from pirating to purchasing, it would mean that PhotoShop would currently have to be pirated 45 times to every 1 legitimate purchase, or piracy would have to currently account for more than 97.5% of "purchases".

If they lowered it to $40, piracy would drop, but so would their overall revenue. They've obviously calculated that $900 is the price at which their revenues will be at the highest number possible.