According to TASS, citing employees of various Russian IT companies, American Adobe – the developer of popular applications Photoshop and Premiere Pro – has begun to automatically extend licenses for its software in Russia.
«User licenses purchased through the official Adobe online store have the option of auto-renewal after linking a card. The free extension may be presented as a gift to those customers who, in the current situation, cannot use a card to pay abroad, in order to maintain loyalty and support their users during a difficult period», - said an employee of one of the Russian IT companies. However, auto-renewal only works for individual licenses. According to the source, auto-renewal is not available for corporate licenses, which are sold through official resellers.
It is reported that the possibility of auto-renewal of the subscription appeared six months ago. «You cannot buy a new subscription - you can only extend it to those products that the user already has. And we are talking about subscriptions for individual users», – the source said.
The possibility of automatic renewal of the subscription to Adobe products was previously announced by the CEO of the game studio Ninsar.Games, Egor Sechinsky. He said that the subscription to the Adobe package "is still active, but we have not paid for it for a year now."