An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by msluyter on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:36PM (#21783564)

Well, not really saying it's bad in a moral sense or making a value judgement (though it does tend to be "bad" from a usability perspective), just noting what I've observed. And it applies even to things that aren't free, but which you pay for via some fixed initial cost.

For example, I bought Words with Friends a long long time ago, and for a while it was great. But now they've added tons of gamification features like powerups that bypass game rules, social, awards, etc... to try to get you to engage more and pay more money. Now, various awards screens pop up and waste seconds of my life after every move.

I just want to play standard Words with Friends with my wife like I have for the last 10 years. But one can see that folks like me aren't making Zynga any (new) money, hence the other inducements.

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by ativzzz on Friday December 13, 2019 @02:31PM (#21784578)

In your example, it seems the app was not mis-priced for you. In fact, it was the perfect price, until the company decided it was mis-priced for them.

So now they add all these unfriendly features, which now makes the app mis-priced for you.

My point is that mis-pricing can be different depending on who's perspective we look at. So in an economic sense, when we say something is mis-priced, from who's perspective is it?

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