The moment i noticed this was when i compared the prices to physical books with e-books. One is physical object needing production and supply chain, second costs peanuts after being wrote. Author did not got rich on such pulp, and royalties are like 0-5% depending on how much pull author have. Overall difference in price: 10-15%

Also another fun fact: Poland introduced sugar tax some time ago. Soda producers wailed as usual. Then they risen the price of ALL beverages, including the sugarfree, about the same.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's like the 1500ml water bottles that are next to the 1500ml Pepsi bottles. Beyond the cost of the plastic, water and filtration (pretty much the same bottle and filtered water that's used to make Pepsi) there's no fucking reason they should be the exact same price.

Games too. The digital download is exactly the same price as the physical. And these days there's no reason to even get the physical anymore because the game isn't actually on the disc. It's just a script that opens the game store and downloads it.