Cheers for the feedback, i appreciate it.
I'll give you all a rundown of how I went.
Background-
While at uni for the last few years I've also been working freelance at home on a pc using a free copy of cs6,
using the old version had minor impact because I could just open and backsave files at school (or work in the labs)
But I just finished my course (yay) and got myself a new laptop to celebrate.
Need the adobe suite somehow, at least pshop, ills + indesign
I've got a job lined up and the office comp is fully sorted, but I still want to be able to do my own stuff from home and little of both from the lappy. There's some tax claims in there at the least.
Todays efforts-
Now that I'm going back to full time work and I'll earn some money, I feel like it'd be right to pay for the programs, I'm not making enough that i wanna spend quite that much though.
My attempt negotiating a deal failed miserably. just shut down with a flat no.
My idea with multiple licences was to split it with a friend, but that seems trickier and not as viable as I thought it might be. makes sense that Adobe would be onto that.
I've finished the uni course but haven't actually graduated yet, so I did manage to get in on the student deal which is around 40% of the regular price, and then even cheaper because I paid for the year upfront (got 2 months free).
Still a bit of a chunk to drop at once. But hey, I'm starting the new job in the new year so if ever there was a time to blow savings on shit, this is it.
Short version-
Paid for it. In the end the total cost worked out to almost exactly the same as 4 months fee at the rate i was looking at this morning. (~$200usd/year) calling that a win.