Lol, that´s just great. Here in Portugal, those close to Spain go there to get gasoline.:)

Madness.

Same here in Brazil... And it has always been taht way :| I was thinking about buying some of the programs to my home business because the price was ok, but actually it was the american version that I couldn't buy, so I headed to the BR version and I've got pretty scaried! It was more than the twice more expensive!!! I've sent an e-mail to Adobe to asking for some reasons for it, but I've never received any answer... That's just awful...

Who cares, do people really bother to make such news and calculate how much it would cost? If it's so expensive, just download it.

Who cares, do people really bother to make such news and calculate how much it would cost? If it's so expensive, just download it.

Some people actually think the thousands of hours people put into developing the software is worth something and those people should be compensated for their work. Those people are so silly though, I mean why should they get paid? All they do is offer the best image software in the industry.

The issue isn't that the developers shouldn't be paid for their work, it's the fact that they charge considerably more in different countries for the exact same item. If the situation were reversed, in that it were significantly cheaper here, can you imagine the stink that would erupt? It's called profiteering, and until now they have done it because they believed that they could get away with it, hiding behind excuses like exchange rates etc. In Australian dollars, software should actually be less than US dollars because the Australian dollar is worth more.

So because some exec in the company made the decision to rip off Australian customers, everyone should go pirate the software instead of doing exactly what they did here; making a fuss/news about it? Because that's what makaveli316 thinks. I disagree. I think it's pretty easy to overturn their position by creating negative press.

software should actually be less than US dollars because the Australian dollar is worth more.

When the hell did that happen?! I remember a couple of years ago the Oz$ was pissweak... How times change!

Just like everything else in NZAUS, we're sick of being ripped off. Absolutly no reason for digital software or even software on disk to cost more in one country than another, same goes for that friggen ps network for vita and ps3.

Some people actually think the thousands of hours people put into developing the software is worth something and those people should be compensated for their work. Those people are so silly though, I mean why should they get paid? All they do is offer the best image software in the industry.

I think your in denial, yes people do deserve to paid for their work but why should other countries have to pay more for software than another country. Exchange rates should not apply to software especially if its the downloadable version, its just data passing over a network, theres no transport and shipping costs involved.

Charging $60 for a computer game that is unique IP made from scratch and takes a team of hundreds to make over the course of several years is one thing. Charging $2k-$4k for a software package that was created years ago and gets a new feature or two added once every 2-3 years, or a revamped GUI is a totally different ballgame. Adobe and many other large development companies charge high-dollar for software packages because they are aimed towards the corporate/enterprise/business market. They are aimed towards a market where the primary customer is going to make profit off of the software, and the customer also has the money to burn. Companies like Adobe want a "piece of the pie," so to speak. The software is probably priced higher in Australia because of the demand for it or some sort of business model for the Australian market that makes that price point work. Adobe doesn't care as much about joe-shmo who bought himself a dSLR and shoots a few weddings a year. They care about huge corporations that will buy hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing for their marketing team. So... in that respect, myself as a general consumer - pirate it. I'm not using their products to make money and I don't own a company that is going to be audited for software licensing compliance. I use Photoshop to make wallpapers, edit personal amateur photography, make promotional artwork for my band (local, unsigned, no profit), and I use Premiere and After Effects to make music videos for fun. I could never justify spending hundreds/thousands in licensing for being a non-profit weekend user.

Charging $60 for a computer game that is unique IP made from scratch and takes a team of hundreds to make over the course of several years is one thing. Charging $2k-$4k for a software package that was created years ago and gets a new feature or two added once every 2-3 years, or a revamped GUI is a totally different ballgame. Adobe and many other large development companies charge high-dollar for software packages because they are aimed towards the corporate/enterprise/business market. They are aimed towards a market where the primary customer is going to make profit off of the software, and the customer also has the money to burn. Companies like Adobe want a "piece of the pie," so to speak. The software is probably priced higher in Australia because of the demand for it or some sort of business model for the Australian market that makes that price point work. Adobe doesn't care as much about joe-shmo who bought himself a dSLR and shoots a few weddings a year. They care about huge corporations that will buy hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing for their marketing team. So... in that respect, myself as a general consumer - pirate it. I'm not using their products to make money and I don't own a company that is going to be audited for software licensing compliance. I use Photoshop to make wallpapers, edit personal amateur photography, make promotional artwork for my band (local, unsigned, no profit), and I use Premiere and After Effects to make music videos for fun. I could never justify spending hundreds/thousands in licensing for being a non-profit weekend user.

So then merely reading a book, or watching a movie generates no profit for you so you're justified in stealing it. Got it. Theft is theft. There are free programs out there.

So because some exec in the company made the decision to rip off Australian customers, everyone should go pirate the software instead of doing exactly what they did here; making a fuss/news about it? Because that's what makaveli316 thinks. I disagree. I think it's pretty easy to overturn their position by creating negative press.

Absolutely, they should complain about this. The solution of pirating, as argued by some, is not the route to go.

3439,90 € in here... So its about 4395,45 USD 500-600€ flights to NY and back =)

I think your in denial, yes people do deserve to paid for their work but why should other countries have to pay more for software than another country. Exchange rates should not apply to software especially if its the downloadable version, its just data passing over a network, theres no transport and shipping costs involved.

In neither one of my posts did I say that other countries should have to pay more for software.

hope this wasnt posted yet Adobe's CEO http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6527767/e3d92e95/adobe_ceo_weigert_vraag_te_beantwoorden.html

hope this wasnt posted yet Adobe's CEO http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6527767/e3d92e95/adobe_ceo_weigert_vraag_te_beantwoorden.html

What a .....:wanker:

:bang: Whats even worse is NZ gets treated as though we are Australia. So even though we are infinitely poorer, we have to pay rich Australian prices. But all media is this way, for some reason. We pay more for all digital media. However, I feel it's not the companies themselves that should be the target. It's the bloody distribution companies who are so use to clipping a big piece of the pie that should be the true target and whose extinction we must ensure in order to achieve fairer prices. I bet there is a bloody monopoly/duopoly in play that is holding the prices so high.

Lol, just fly to Indonesia, it's only around $1500 here and Indonesia is just 2-3 hours flight from Australia. I use mspaint and Paint.NET for occasional image editing. I can't afford Photoshop, do not need it, and do not know how to use its fancy tools. BTW, I'm pretty sure 99% of photoshop installed in computers here are pirated. It's only $4 in pirated software stores. Yes, there are plenty of those stores here http://www.poskotanews.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Razia-Sofware.jpg

hope this wasnt posted yet Adobe's CEO http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6527767/e3d92e95/adobe_ceo_weigert_vraag_te_beantwoorden.html

Holy wow. What a scumbag.

Sounds like someone could step in and make some cash with a competing program in those areas. On the other hand, this is software... not air, you can live without it.