Chudo,
oh games, for PC anyway, are fair priced, £25 for 25 to 300 hours of fun? bloody hell that's cheap! :)
compare ot music, DVD etc, per hour, or any other activity.
I'm happy to pay when it's FAIR.

What rips me up, is the price for apps, including Vue, grrr. It's STUPID as well as ridiculous.
Sell 'em cheaper, get more users, sell more content, everyone'd be happy! :)

What we really need is some ability to pay for soft goods, based on what the LOCAL real world value of items and wages are.

You cannot expect Joe_001 in India, to pay $500 for Vue, when his wages are 1/4 what we get in Europe!
Thats' why Microsoft was forced to sell their products so cheap in Asia, piracy was the only way folk could afford them because MS had the same stupid way of looking at consumers as victims.
here we have monopolies and the lousy, anti-consumer practices dominating us. See for example, DVD "Regions"...which was just a neat trick to rip us off.

In a sane world, folk would pay based on their actual wealth. Remember, it's software we're talking about, that can be sent digitally, no raw materials of limited resources like rare metals used up, so soft goods are not the same as hard goods.
You can't, for example, make a billion copies of a platinum ring, platinum is real, rare, very limited quantity and delivering it takes a lto of resources, but electrons and photons? pfft no problem!

In that sane world, rather than dropping bombs, we'd drop laptops and mobile phones into troubled areas of the world, and set upcell masts and the like, so ignorance would be stamped out (ignorance is the REAL threat, not terrorism, drugs etc, its ignorance that fuels those damned horrors, wipe out igorance, you'd eliminate most religious extremism, xenophobia etc),
In that sane world, folk would pay say  3days wages equivalent for Vue Infinite...E-on would have 100 MILLION customers...and everyone would be happy!

One day folk will wake up out of the zombified state our societies are in, sigh
Sorry for derail ;)

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