Why are Adobe products so expensive?

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ssj12 said:

Rpruett said:
It's expensive for two reasons.

- Piracy.
- Greed.

They would charge a higher price than it is truly worth because they know their clients will fork over the cash in order to use the best tools on the market. This is their own greed. To make matters worse, they know piracy exists on their products and therefore as a reactionary response they make the price low enough that their clients will stay pay but high enough that they aren't putting themselves into the hole with piracy / lower than assumed sales.

Gimp is nice, but Photoshop is easily better. And if you're really serious about something, wouldn't you want to use the best tools on the market?

Actually no, because if that was the case there wouldnt be a suite of development tools made by some company, forgot what it was but I want them, that cost well over $200k.

 

Its not greed or piracy, its quality.

Pretty sure that would be Flint, Smoke, and Flame. There is no way to pirate that without getting the special version of Autodesk RedHat linux to run it one specialized hardware.

 

Then Scenerist from Sonic cost over 18,000 for just one program not even a suite.

 

Don't get me started on Avid there media editor for PC/MAC started off at over 4K.

 

Adobe is cheap as hell and so is Final Cut. They both do almost everything you need but when you enter the cream of the professional business you need beyond what even adobe and apple offer and you pay for it. 3d tracking FTW.