Don’t know specifics…
But generally, Adobe is moving away from traditional perpetual licensing to SAS (Software as Service) pretty much exclusively. It’s just a decision that they made that they feel is better for their business. I offer this description matter-of-factly and with no opinion one way or the other. Users will ultimately determine if this is a model that will work.
Already there have been a number of editing and inter-application workflow functions that have been released exclusively for CC version, but my understanding is Adobe has continued to patch CS6 to keep it up to date with most modern media formats and fix show stopping bugs that have popped up on 6.
Don’t know how long that patches will go on…Technically at some point in the future the code base will become so bifurcated that there will probably be some some things that CS6 version as a code base just isn’t intended to do. I imagine at that point Adobe would like cease patching and adding media non- compatible media formats, but as I don’t work for Adobe…I can’t hazard as to when that would be.
So that’s where it’s at….there’s a whole other forum dedicated to the debate over this business model.
Hope you find this helpful.
thanks!
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX