Originally Posted by k0nr4d

Alright, you are wrong - here is your correction

The script originally cost $1500. It had less features. This part is correct. Now it costs less. However, what you have illustrated is that the cost of SOFTWARE has gone down, not that the cost of SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT has gone down. The script has more features and is at the price point it is because more features were required as the market developed, and the price point was adjusted also according to what the market was willing to pay.

I can sell a script for $2000, less people will buy it because it is less accessible financially. I will have less clients and less support to do and will be able to do it better. I can also sell a script for $20, and a ton of people will buy it and I will spend all day answering questions and making no money, and even doing my best I wouldn't be able to keep up and people will start saying our support is shit. There is a middle-ground where we make enough and can provide good enough services.

The cost of software developers has gone up - alot. Furthermore, not only does it now cost more per hour to develop - user expectations are higher because there is more competition in the market so more features and more hours must be invested into a product. What I'm getting at, is if I had my staff develop MB 10 years ago and today with the exact same feature set, my costs to create it would have been 25% of what it would today.