Who's ordered CS5 & Why?

[snickelfritz]

CS5 Design Premium.

Flash CS5:
Custom class introspection and code hinting in the built-in code editor is awesome.

 

[kurzz]

That content aware brush..is..amazing. That alone is worth the price. I'm not much of a Photoshop person so that feature makes it so convenient for touch-ups (and removing your ex from all your photos hahaha).

 

[Intel Inside]

You didn't get the download version?

Nope, prefer to have the box shipped to me

 

[DistrictLady]

Ordered on sunday, 2nd May and my order is still pending... wonder when it will ship My proof of being a student was accepted and i got an e-mail about it, but nothing yet. Expected ship date - Sunday 9th May

I do some work for Adobe and yes CS5 is shipping. In the meantime if you really can't wait you should download the 30 day trial version. It works the exact same!

 

[imiloa]

I'll be upgrading my CS4 Production Prem to CS5 Prod Prem as soon as they issue the inevitable x.1.0 bug update.

I'm a media professional, mostly Flash, so want both the new PS/AE enhancements and the new Flash tools.

Had be prepping some Flash-based iPhone/iPad games the last few months, but Steve blew that plan to hell. So now I'll be releasing the games for Android and AIR (Mac/PC desktop) instead.

Steve can say what he wants. Flash can wield visual/audial magic today that will take many years to stabilize across all browsers in HTML5. The full HTML5 spec is still in development. vis:

"Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, expects the specification to reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012" (link)

 

[Anuba]

I want to order CS5 Master Collection, but Adobe won't let me, and here's why:

I have a Web Premium CS3 license and want to upgrade to CS5 Master Collection.

I'm Swedish so I could go for the Swedish or the English version, but I prefer the English one, since I'm familiar with it and won't have to chuckle at all the goofy translations.

Now, if I look at any other version of CS5 (Web Premium, Production Premium, whatever), the pricing is consistent and makes sense: The English edition is the cheapest, and if you go for any localized version you have to pay a little more.

But with the Master Collection upgrade, it's the other way around: Swedish, Dutch, Italian etc is 2000 SEK (approx. $279) cheaper than the English version (and for some odd reason, the Portuguese version).

This makes absolutely no sense. If you buy any of the smaller suites or individual applications, the English edition costs less than the others. So how on earth is it possible that if you take all those applications and put them together, the pricing model gets flipped 180° so that English is much more expensive than all localized versions (except Portuguese)?!

Since the prices are completely screwed up, I'd like to contact Adobe to ask if they want to borrow my calculator. Unfortunately, they've built an impenetrable fortress that makes it impossible to ask sales questions.

There is no contact link for "sales support" or similar, and I can't call them at 3 AM on a Saturday, so the next option is to click "Customer Service". Once you do this on adobe.se, you're taken to a page where they try a thousand ways to get rid of you (read the FAQ, search the knowledgebase, make other paying customers do Adobe's work for them on the forums, etc). The only light at the end of the tunnel is the link "Ask a new question". This link sends you to a glorified 404 page that reads "Sorry, this page is not available" and gives a list of options to try, the only relevant one being "Ask Adobe support" (this link takes you back to the 404 page you're already on).

To make a long story short, I want to buy web design products from a corporation that can't design a website, can't do math, and won't let me contact them.

 

[mBox]

I want to order CS5 Master Collection, but Adobe won't let me, and here's why:

I have a Web Premium CS3 license and want to upgrade to CS5 Master Collection.

I'm Swedish so I could go for the Swedish or the English version, but I prefer the English one, since I'm familiar with it and won't have to chuckle at all the goofy translations.

Now, if I look at any other version of CS5 (Web Premium, Production Premium, whatever), the pricing is consistent and makes sense: The English edition is the cheapest, and if you go for any localized version you have to pay a little more.

But with the Master Collection upgrade, it's the other way around: Swedish, Dutch, Italian etc is 2000 SEK (approx. $279) cheaper than the English version (and for some odd reason, the Portuguese version).

This makes absolutely no sense. If you buy any of the smaller suites or individual applications, the English edition costs less than the others. So how on earth is it possible that if you take all those applications and put them together, the pricing model gets flipped 180° so that English is much more expensive than all localized versions (except Portuguese)?!

Since the prices are completely screwed up, I'd like to contact Adobe to ask if they want to borrow my calculator. Unfortunately, they've built an impenetrable fortress that makes it impossible to ask sales questions.

There is no contact link for "sales support" or similar, and I can't call them at 3 AM on a Saturday, so the next option is to click "Customer Service". Once you do this on adobe.se, you're taken to a page where they try a thousand ways to get rid of you (read the FAQ, search the knowledgebase, make other paying customers do Adobe's work for them on the forums, etc). The only light at the end of the tunnel is the link "Ask a new question". This link sends you to a glorified 404 page that reads "Sorry, this page is not available" and gives a list of options to try, the only relevant one being "Ask Adobe support" (this link takes you back to the 404 page you're already on).

To make a long story short, I want to buy web design products from a corporation that can't design a website, can't do math, and won't let me contact them.

find a reseller thatll take care of the purchase. even online resellers can do the change.