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by andrecarini 1247 days ago
Come on, it's not about being charitable or maximising profits; it's about scaling a price proportionally to the target audience's purchasing power (similar to discounts for students, et cetera).

> feels kind of cheesy because intuitively you feel like you are getting ripped off [...] and then it brings up some complex ethical questions like "is it stealing to use a VPN

An actually complex ethical question would be "does my country and my predecessors have a hand in making [poor African country] so poor that they can't buy games at 60 dollars?"