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> it makes it a massive pain in the ass for any price-conscious users to decide whether it's worth paying for.

The goal would be to dissociate the software from the price/value. It happens when people are enticed to get loyalty points for things like grocery purchases. No one would move if the deal was "save 30cents" but they would for "and get 300 bonus points!" (See McDonald's or every other loyalty system). Entire ecosystems have been created around inflated point value too.

Adobe should just call them "Adobe points" and make it essentially a digital currency that can also be used for stock photos, etc too. Or maybe even for cloud computing for fast render farms of your increasingly complex video/3Dworks. Heck, it could be blockchain based too (AdobeCoin?)

They're already trying the kind of "buffet" model with their cloud subs. Maybe they can shift to a credit system to encourage other users.



Autodesk has this system with "credits". Seems hokey.


Wow, this Autodesk Flex Tokens system is exactly the sort of thing I was suggesting, it looks really cool!

https://www.autodesk.com/buying/flex?term=500&tab=flex

Looks like they do it per day per user, so 1 token allows 1 user to use the software for 1 day. Really good idea for licensing teams to use expensive industry software IMO


No, different applications have different token/day cost.




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