🎮 GTA VI Pricing: Consumer Backlash and Industry Implications

Rockstar's $80 pricing for GTA VI sparks debate on consumer ownership and the future of AAA games amidst rising costs.

https://www.byte-pulse.net/article/gta-vi-pricing-consumer-backlash-and-industry-implications

#gtavi #rockstar #gamingindustry #pricing

New York City Wants to End Surveillance Pricing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://prospect.org/2026/06/23/new-york-city-wants-to-end-surveillance-pricing/

Innovative: ‘The New York Times’ Has Announced Their Subscriptions Will Now Be Billed On A Sliding Scale Based On How Likely Someone Is To Remember That They’re Still Being Billed For ‘The New York Times’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://clickhole.com/innovative-the-new-york-times-has-announced-their-subscriptions-will-now-be-billed-on-a-sliding-scale-based-on-how-likely-someone-is-to-remember-that-theyre-still-being-billed-for-the/

It's real and it's fucking expensive!

Valve finally announces the price of Steam Machine and a sort of release date, but the console-like PC might cost more than you're expecting

https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-machine-price-launch-pre-order-reservation-date

#Valve #SteamMachine #Steam #PC #Hardware #Pricing #Tech #Gaming

BlocksAI is free and you might even get paid.

#ai #startup #pricing

Maybe it's coincidental timing in my case, but me thinks #Bitwarden might be a little on edge about stirring their own #policy and #pricing pot recently.

Apparently, my #loyalty status (whatever that might mean) has earned me a _one-time_ 25% discount on my upcoming Personal Plan renewal. (Yeah, 100% of your subscribers get this exact same oh-so-special price reduction)

Oh, and why is it I'm paying tax on a service in a state that specifically notes they don't allow it?

📦 uselotus/lotus

Open Source Pricing & Packaging Infrastructure

Enables organizations to manage subscription billing pricing models and feature access control for open source and commercial products

⭐ Stars: 1827
📅 Last Update: May 24, 2026

https://github.com/uselotus/lotus

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #pricing #billing