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arrow-up1686arrow-down1external-linkFunimation To Shut Down Completely On April 2; Deleting Purchased Digital Copieswww.animeexplained.comalphacyberranger to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square124cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•10 months agoThey don’t care about losing customers to piracy just like fast-food restaurants don’t care about losing people to grocery stores. They’ve realized it’s more profitable to take further advantage of an ever-shrinking pool of customers. If you can charge 1 customer twice the price of what you could charge 2, then you make more money because you require less overhead.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•10 months agoI definitely agree with you but I’m not sure how far they can take this in an economic situation that is currently devolving into a major recession and has all the macroeconomic factors of an incoming second depression.
They don’t care about losing customers to piracy just like fast-food restaurants don’t care about losing people to grocery stores.
They’ve realized it’s more profitable to take further advantage of an ever-shrinking pool of customers.
If you can charge 1 customer twice the price of what you could charge 2, then you make more money because you require less overhead.
I definitely agree with you but I’m not sure how far they can take this in an economic situation that is currently devolving into a major recession and has all the macroeconomic factors of an incoming second depression.