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What if you enjoy the occasional mango. You may not need it, per se. But you do gain benefit from eating one on occasion. There happens to be a mango tree in your backyard. You could just go back there and pick one and enjoy it, which costs you the time and effort it takes to go back there and eat it.

So your kid offers you a service. He will make the trip to the backyard for you and get a mango whenever you want it. And he'll do this for the flat cost of $2 for the rest of your life (well, until he gets tired of doing this and decides to discontinue the service). Good deal right? Especially since it's a one time fee.

But wait! You have to within the vicinity of a mango tree to eat the mango. Yeah, that's right. This is a weird mango. You can get the benefit of this mango delivery service. And you can enjoy having it in your hands and smelling the fragrance of the sweet fruit. But to actually eat it, you have to have the same access to a mango tree that your kid does when he picks it.

Is it worth $2 knowing you can have a mango in your hand at any time, even though you probably won't be able to eat it most of the time?

That's how I view this product.

Yeah, way to completely ignore the rest of the argument. Or was it just too difficult for you to comprehend that usability and customization are actually important to some people?

You did the same for mine, why would I provide more for you?

Dude, it's a niche app, not a staple food item.

If some one else is making a free app that does the same thing, then by all means get the free app. If you don't need the app at all, then by all means, don't buy the app. In the time you spend complaining about it you could have served 10 happy meals and afforded the app and a coke. How much is your time really worth, and why is it "outrageous" when some one else asks to be paid for their time?

I'm really interested to know what you do for a living, because I can't imagine you running any kind of successful business or even negotiating a competitive wage for yourself when you get mad over a 2 dollar, niche app.

And by the way, the "free" alternative you're talking about? It was created by the same person hawking the app. So what you're really saying is that he needs to take down the free web page or make it a pay site, or at least, break its compatibility with android mobile devices.

Clearly not everyone shares your opinion and I doubt you're going to change anyone's mind. You can state your opinion but don't act like you're the absolute voice of reason. The product isn't worth the cost TO YOU. What if someone doesn't want the website as their homepage as they already use another website as their homepage? There could be any number of reason as to why someone does or doesn't wish to buy the app. It's hardly the best thing since sliced bread but it's also not the end of the world.

Dude, I'm not the one who compared it to a mango to begin with.


Or, I could spend that money on something else. Or just not spend the money and put it into savings instead. And I never said it was outrageous (that was lolgaxe). I've simply said it's not worth $2 to me.


SE provides a web site showing server status for FFXI. I expect they'll do the same for FFXIV if they haven't already done so. That should be easy enough to access on any device that can run the game.


I'm a programmer. I don't write software that consumers buy. I work for a company that provides internet service, and I write software to help us manage the network. I'm also not "getting mad" over $2. I'm just not going to spend $2 on this app.

But that's enough about me. The important thing here is how businesses are run. One basic business principle in an open market system is that you don't price your product based on your cost. You price your product based on what the market will bear. If you charge more than people are willing to spend, your product will fail to sell. If you charge less than what people are willing to spend, you're making less money than you could be simply by charging more.

Having said that, the cost to provide the product or service is still a factor in a separate business decision. If it costs more to make your product than you can sell it for, then you should just not sell that product. Raising your price to exceed your cost doesn't help, because you're now losing sales due to the higher price.

A mango isn't a staple food item, at least in North America. I chose it because it's a fairly cheap fruit that is nonetheless still a luxury item of sorts. Sort of like a 2 dollar app. If it makes the relationship more clear than substitute "pet rock" or "fuzzy dice" instead. The point is, it's cheap, you might want it, but you don't need it.



Well I was responding to lolgaxe, which I thought the quotation of lolgaxe and the "lolgaxe wrote" thing would have indicated. If you want to respond to my post anyway, that's fine, it's an open forum, but don't act like I'm putting words in your mouth with a post that clearly wasn't addressed to you or about you.


Went ahead and snipped the rest of your post because it all seems based on the false assumption that I was talking to you specifically.

The bottom line for me is what I have already stated: This app is not something that any one needs. Not having it is not going to impair any one's lifestyle, and even if it did, it's not the app creator's job to solve that problem for free. The app developer has no moral duty to provide it at a cost that you can afford (although, who can afford a monthly subscription to an MMO and not a 2 dollar app?). Some one who can afford 50 cents or a dollar for this bauble can still afford 2.

Even if the app has no value to you or lolgaxe or any one else you know, acting like it's an outrage for some one to ask 2 dollars for an app that took them time and effort to develop is just dumb, And frankly, whatever software you are developing, your boss is definitely NOT providing it to the customer for just a few dollars. One way or another, his cost to pay you to develop it is being paid back with a healthy profit on top, or else he is in the process of going out of business or laying you off.

Edited, Jul 18th 2013 12:53pm by KarlHungis

Oh, oops.

Well said Wint. I don't know why anyone would talk sh*t about the work he's doing because he is trying to recoup some of his costs.

If you don't like it, use the free webpage and don't buy the app... no need to start a flame war over it.

That's another good point ads suck ***. If you accidentally click/touch/swipe on one you usually get taken completely out of the app into your browser or the app store -_- Not to mention it's constantly in your face, flashing, sparkling, or whirling around.

Edit: My gawd I make a lot of typing mistakes! Maybe I shouldn't ignore the red lines while trying to type and eat at the same time. >_>

Edited, Jul 18th 2013 1:24pm by Seraphknight777



Edited, Jul 18th 2013 1:26pm by Seraphknight777

Your App looks awesome! As soon as it's available for my iPhone 5, I'll buy it in a hot second.

Well said sir. I agree completely :) While I haven't bought this app yet; from the pictures alone it looks great. The site itself is wonderful as well.

I tried making a android app for my addons before... and failed miserably. Congratulations to the OP on making it!