r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

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u/Parxxr 2d ago

A static price will hardly offset a running bill based on daily usage, unless the price is so high nobody would be willing to pay it in the first place.

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u/Acceptable_Cycle_379 2d ago

If it does, that's just a skill issue. There are very cheap models that can be used for something like this. Account based limits can be added to limit potential abuse. Something like 10$ can go a really long way. Most people are probably not going to spend hundreds of hours playing, you'd really only have like one in a thousand that would become an unprofitable player. I don't know any of the specifics, of course, but if they didn't do the calculations to see that the game can be profitable and how.. Again, that's just a skill issue.

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u/A1oso 1d ago

Exactly. I imagine that most prompts will be short (1 sentence) and the response doesn't require reasoning. With a cheap model like GPT-6 Luna, you can probably execute 100,000 prompts for less than $10.

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u/eugene2k 1d ago

So if the game is played by 100000 people, that's $10 per sentence. How much should the full game cost then?

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u/A1oso 1d ago

This doesn't make sense. My thought was, if the game costs $10, each player can do 100,000 prompts

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u/eugene2k 1d ago

Ah, I understood it as "100 000 prompts cost $10"