Is $15 too much for a plugin?

[joelr]

There was a really indepth topic made on IPS. Basically, the user asked if simple plugins were worth $15.

Do you think basic plugins should cost $15, or is that too much?

https://invisioncommunity.com/forum...in-invision-community-vs-xenforo-and-woltlab/

 

[Dilip]

I am always willing to pay for someone's time and effort, simple or otherwise.

 

[Tracy]

It really depends on what it is. If it is like some of Andy's remove-ons/enable-ons then yeah, it can be to high unless you absolutely need it.
Ultimately the price will be what the market will bear. You have a very limited pool, so unless you are doing add-ons like XenAddons does (or similar developers) then you aren't going to be getting even somewhat comfortable from the income of them. And honestly, in the grand scheme of things, $10-$15 for even a small quality add-on that does what you need is not that bad.
The days of quality free add-ons/plug-ins are pretty much gone. It's now all about the money. Of course, many of those that developed add-ons back in the day did it because of love of doing it. But many of those have left for one reason or another. Now society is so money based you rarely see quality stuff coming out just because someone wants to "give back" to the community.

 

[Shortie]

I guess it depends on what the plugin is and what it does as to whether it is worth $15 or not. Based on the fact someone had spent time making the plugin, I would say that already is worth the $15.

 

[cpvr]

No, $15 isn’t too much for a plugin. It’s actually a good price. Developers deserve to get paid for their time and work.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I don't think $15 is too much, it takes hard work and time for developers to create new plugins. I think $15 is a reasonable price to be honest with you.

 

[Smokey]

I've paid way more than $15 for add-ons/plugins for XF and IPS over the years. $15 seems VERY cheap.

 

[Dewlance]

The price is affordable unless you have to pay for each feature, which already comes free with forum software such as XenForo or even with free software like MyBB.

 

[Nomad]

The price I am willing to pay depends on what the plugin can actually do. If there are already free plugins that do exactly the same job, why should I pay for the plugin. I mean why should I pay for ForumEngine when WPForo and Asgaros are completely free

 

[Tracy]

Exactly. I recently paid $10 for chunked upload add-on. I needed it to get around the 100MB upload limit of using CloudFlare as some of the programs that get uploaded to the resource manager can be much larger than that. It was one of those add-ons that should really be built into the script itself (the technology/code has been around for years) but since the developers don't need/use it, it was not thought about.