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Fireworks 8 Pricing?!!?!?

Laguna · 2005-08-23 23:48:21

Howdy all, I'm a big advocate of Macromedia products (especially Fireworks MX) and when I heard Fireworks 8 was on the way I was delighted. I thought I'd purchase itfor my Mac and was utterly astounded at the price tag of $299! I mean for ****s sake! it costs more than Windows XP/Mac OS X... What is the story with the…

23-08-2005 11:48pm

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Laguna

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Howdy all,
I'm a big advocate of Macromedia products (especially Fireworks MX) and when I heard Fireworks 8 was on the way I was delighted. I thought I'd purchase itfor my Mac and was utterly astounded at the price tag of $299! I mean for ****s sake! it costs more than Windows XP/Mac OS X... What is the story with the spiralling prices of software?!

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#2 23-08-2005 11:51pm

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you should see the price of photoshop or 3d studio max (into the thousands for max)

$299 is cheap enough for a graphics editor of the quality of fireworks.

the logic i think behind the high prices is that you buy the software once, you start to make money from using the program, then you can buy the upgrades as they come out

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