User blog comment:SynergyShade3624/Real Racing 3's Freemium Aspect/@comment-32.211.144.143-20140923200407

Having worked for a living developing products (hardware) that are sold, I can tell you that a lot of work goes into it. I sure as hell wouldn't do it for free and when people buy it, then I know I've done a good job.

It's natural to want a bargen and to get what you pay for. It's understandable if you've always lived with your parents, they paid for your food, your clothes, gave you rides or supplimented your transportation, paid for the electricity/water you use, the trash you throw out, the cable TV and internet you use, cooked your food and delivered it on a plate, I can understand that you would also expect software you use to be free and given to you too. No problem. Not upset here. It's only natural.

When I fill up my car with gas, it's $40-$50USD. Cup of coffee, $3-$4 USD at Starbucks. If I take my girlfriend out for dinner, we'll easily touch $80-$150USD. A Beer at a bar might cost you $5-10USD. It's easy to burn through $50-$100 USD a day.

Paying $10, $20, $30USD with Real Racing 3 is nothing when you put it in comparison and how much VALUE and ENTERTAINMENT you get from it. In comparison, a movie ticket for two, two popcorns, soda, will easily touch $25+USD for only 2hours of entertainment. If it's not just you and your signifigant other, but also includes an unemployed child, add another $15USD. I get a lot more than that out of Real Racing 3.

We may not flinch to pay for such things in our daily lives, but are outraged when asked to pay a small fraction of that for something we use, not for 2hrs, not for 8hrs, but 24hrs, 60hrs, 100hrs, and we enjoy the entertainment.

Some are so outraged that they feel justified to steal and hack the software that dozens of people with families have worked weeks to months on, because they feel they SHOULD have access for FREE. What do you think would happen if you tried to steal that cup of coffee? Steal that car that somebody else worked for and bought? "it's just software...  it doesn't hurt anybody..."

A grocery store next to the business I run closed 3 months ago. Everybody visits me and asks, how did that happen? If you don't buy there, and business can't survive. Now there are 15+ people unemployeed.

Those that think software companies should charge you to use their software, I hope the different perspective gives one something to chew on. Although initially I started this in a response to the article here, but it's really for the general population who are aggitated when somebody asks them to pay money for what they want in life.

Signed,

An Enginneer/Business Owner who tries to build things and provide things that makes the world a better place and to give employeement to those who desire jobs.