Recently, I discontinued my Creative Cloud service and decided to buy Acrobat Pro here, a desktop copy on CD

I foresee hours of tech support and I am very upset and additionally, since discontinuing Creative Cloud, I can't even get Adobe Reader on my computer to work as it also tells me my subscription has expired and READER is supposed to be FREE.Update Jan 8, 2017: worked myself up for an adobe tech support chat; waited an hour for a rep to be able to chat; got help and explained situation

If the interface had informed me it was not properly "licensed" rather than telling me I needed to renew my subscription to creative cloud I would have been able to figure it out