One of my friends absolutely loves the new subscription model. She is a professional artist and a bunch of smaller payments is easier for her to handle than a single large payment, so she can finally justify getting everything Adobe offers (equivalent of the Master Suite I guess).

I don't like the new subscription model. I'd rather pay for something once and not worry about it again, whether that means paying monthly or needing to connect to the net every 99 days to make sure I can still access the software. I don't use what I have (Production Premium Suite) very often and will probably just stick with my CS5.5 version forever.