>>7704670>The price of a deluxe TF has doubled in the last 10 yearsBecause you tards are getting ripped off
>>7704996Labor is up, mold making and automated paints are down. Don't even joke, even small made to order machining shops offer mold making at a fraction of what it was ten years ago and it's much more accessible because services like xometry have instant quotes and browser previews. You're getting ripped off because you just HAVE to have those collector's items.
>>7704670>a more expensive subscription modelWrong. The only case you can make that SaaS is more expensive is unrealistic cases where some retard insists he would have kept the same version for 10 years. Someone like that would never have bought the software in the first place, that's hypothetical bullshit to justify pirating. SaaS provides more updates, is cheaper between versions by far, and is far more accessible compared to the old days where you got one version and one update pack for $1200-4000 up front and had 0 flexibility to leave once you bought it. It was the same thing as a subscription contracted over like 4 years that you paid up front for with no benefit, fewer updates, and worse customer support. The only place it's not cheaper is games. Similar models for servers and platforms as services ("cloud") are a God send for businesses too. Almost everything about it is better
