I appreciate the amount of talent and…
I appreciate the amount of talent and high-quality work available on Creative Market. However, I’m giving it two stars because of its lock-in subscription model and the difficulty in getting value out of it. The sheer volume of assets can be overwhelming, especially when the search and filtering tools don’t feel strong enough to navigate it efficiently. Finding something genuinely useful can mean spending a lot of time sorting through results, including a growing amount of AI slop. As a result, I often ended up not using my credits simply because I don’t have the time or energy to keep searching. If you cancel your subscription, you lose the credits you’ve accumulated. Therefore, you may find yourself continuing to pay just because you don’t want to lose the ones you’ve already paid for, not because you're getting value out of an ongoing subscription. A note to businesses: if your revenue depends on friction or the cost of leaving, rather than on customers continuing to be satisfied, you're extracting value instead of creating it. It's not a good look for you, even if the terms are transparent.