[quote="Shawn"]
They are, but many of them are difficult to make.

I've been learning PHP here lately. It's not an easy language to learn.

To go through all the learning, struggles, and time you invest in creating an addon, you should be able to earn a profit from it.

Right now in the States, you can sell a simple family home for an easy $100K, but if someone tells you that they'd rather pay the old cost of $60K instead, you're going to say no if you're smart. Someone else will buy it for $100K.

Market share and use is going to drive up the price of things. It always has.

More people use XF and want those features, the more they will have to pay.
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We are moving to XF in January. Some of the mods arent that bad in pricing but being that is a paid host everything is paid for. You will make the money back on ads. users like a nice interface and that what XF has.