The end of regionalised pricing for digital goods? Most definitely
The end of personalised pricing for homogenous digital goods? Perhaps
I am in no way suggesting that firms will willingly lower their prices. What I am suggesting is that coming developments will create a gap for price comparison websites that will quickly be filled. Unless firms ramp up product differentiation they will perish to the forces of creative destruction.
Consider that the marginal cost for digital goods is effectively 0. Firms will still profit even if prices drop by "more than 50%"
2042 software personalized pricing
Jordan Ortiz
John Stewart
class Person():
'average faggot who pays for software'
def __init__(self,sex,income,age,provider=None):
self.sex = sex
self.income = income
self.age = age
self.setProvider(self,provider)
self.price_multiplier = None
def setProvider(self,other):
if self.sex == "male":
pass
else:
if provider == None:
print("That's impossible")
else:
if type(provider) == list:
from numpy import mean
self.provider = [person for person in provider if person.income > mean([person.income for person in provider list]) and person.sex == "male"]
elif provider.sex == "male":
self.provider = provider
else:
quit()
def setMultiplier(self):
if self.sex == "male":
return self.income / 20 + self.age
else:
return other.income /10 + self.age +[spoiler][/spoiler] self.provider.age
Michael Richardson
the absolute autism on this website is maddening
Aiden Brooks
* basic price for virgins (discounted if they're over 30)
* price higher for people who masturbated at least once in the last six months
* price way higher for people who had sex at least once in their life
* price doubles if sex with different partners
* supplementary doubling for people who were born as females
* another price doubling for people who had non-straight sex at least once in their life
* yet another price doubling for people claiming to not to be "cis straight"
Jaxson Rivera
Damn. Just imagine.
Henry Robinson
prices are already demand driven, as demand goes up discounts disappear as if by magic and the less interested people wait till they reappear. Look at the difference in the normal price and lowest recorded price in your pic.
go study economics retard.
Christian Ortiz
>I identify as a python 3.7 interpreter
gas yourself you fucking autist
Luis Stewart
Sure, but you're dealing with something like 500 million potential customers each with different willingness to pay x amount. In order to *maximise* profit, you'd have to have personalized prices.
Jackson Howard
Aren't various mobile games/apps already doing something similar with their microtransactions?
They'll take data they've recorded on your interactions with the game + whatever other data they have and adjust the prices of microtransactions, the cooldown/wait on game mechanics, the outcome of "random" rolls etc according to what the algos and behavioral scientists have calculated gives maximum profits.
When you leave the house in 2042 there won't be price tags, instead the mandatory brain implant will display your personalized price carefully calculated by algos that have been fed every minor detail about you.
Aiden Morgan
Do you have any source for personalized and not just random pricing for microtransactions?