Prices are high, but that is ultimately the choice of the developer.
Perhaps the worst of it is that Epic doesn’t offer better support for Marketplace developers to regulate themselves.
-Price changes and updates require the run-around to push
-Submissions take months to finally go to market if they even make it, and those that don’t get no feedback on why until months down the road
-No search
-No analytics
-What is the policy on competing products?
-No C++
Even if developers wanted to charge a little less for products that don’t sell as well as they’d hoped, or they want to push a fix for something that was missed in QA, they have to contact Epic and wait. Developers should have much, much more control over their own products. Otherwise situations like are encouraged; pricing far above what the market value may be for fear of undervaluing their product and having to go through Epic to try something else.
It’d be best to be able to start with an introductory sale, or even start high and slash the price if it doesn’t go well. Something better than what we have.