Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?)

New submitter jvp (27996) writes "Adobe's authentication system for its Creative Cloud as well as its website services is down, and has been since Wednesday (14 May) afternoon. What this means: If you're a Creative Cloud subscriber, you can't log into your account via the desktop application. Online services such as the fonts are not available. Applications (eg: Photoshop, Premiere, etc) will continue to work. Softpedia has a nice article on it, but their time frames are off quite a bit." As of this writing, a message on the Adobe Creative Cloud page says "Creative Cloud is currently undergoing maintenance. Please check back later. Thank you for your patience." Even though I've come to like some remote-hosted software, like gmail, I don't think I'd want tools for manipulating local media tied even loosely to the uptime of a remote computer (or network connection).

Re:NO Photoshop for you!

[jvp]

Fortunately, as I pointed out: you can still the CC apps while this debacle is being un-FUBAR'd. That is unless it takes them up to 2 months to fix it, at which point the app will no longer be able to authenticate and validate your subscription. THEN it's "NO Photoshop for you!"

If it takes them that long to fix this, then they are truly, completely, and absolutely incompetent...

The best part...

[MachineShedFred]

The best part is that this is happening on the eve of Adobe canceling sales of perpetual licensing to Adobe Creative Suite products [cnet.com]. If you are a volume license customer, you will no longer be able to buy ANYTHING BUT Creative Cloud as of June 1; and you get to pay Adobe every month whether they update anything or not as expense rather than capital purchase.

Hooray for not having competition?

Re:NO Photoshop for you!

[Robert Duncan]

Not all CC apps will work. If you have, for example, used CC fonts in an InDesign document, you won't be able view them properly or publish the document if you can't sign into CC.

Re: NO Photoshop for you!

[Anonymous Coward]

What's that say for you, then, as someone who assumptively dismisses the knowledge of others as being factually incorrect, while it is, in fact, your own assertion that is wrong. CC apps work for up to 60 days offline before needing re-validated.

Dolt.

Re: NO Photoshop for you!

[Timothy Hartman]

If today was the day you needed to revalidate you'll be having some hassles, though. 60 days is only if you got in for a year at a time, also.

library e-books fail to work while adobe is down

[iamscottevil]

I tried to download some e-books from my library website, adobe digital editions is dead while this the authentication system is down, so can't get any e-books. And it's been more than a day without any explanation. Another disappointment courtesy DRM.