I would assume that next year will be $9.99 for the year (since the original price only covered half of the season). Even at $10, that’s 162 games plus the playoffs? On a per-game or per-day basis that’s a miniscule cost.

I love reading about all of the whining and complaining about how charging for the app each year as new features and new (current) content are built into the product is wrong and how it should just be free. These people have no concept of economics or business and have been ruined by the “free” culture perpetuated by the web. You pay for your cell minutes each month. You pay for cable television. If you want real-time game data and streaming highlights delivered to your phone, you pay for that too. If you think that’s unfair, then use the free WAP site at wap.mlb.com and stop whining. The experience pales in comparison, but if you want to be cheap, it’s available to you.

Hey Casey, let’s see TiPB turn off all of its ads – I’ve already seen them once, so it’s greedy to continue to show them!

See how this works?

Yes, MLB may be ripping the public off but, as kalahari surfer said, the iTunes Store should be making it clear that it’s a subscription that’s needed for the app to continue to function.

It’s always the morons that have to insult to advance in a argument. I never directed anything towards you in my opinion, however you just had to include me an my family in yours. Loser

@jon Amen. $5 for a years worth of baseball video on demand is a damn good deal for a subscription service. You explain that to the “everything should be free” morons that exist in this world. They just don’t get it.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it and STFU.

When you have to pay every year for something it’s called a subsription. Five dollars for an entire year of baseball is a ridiculously good subscription price.

The target audience are a bunch of American retards. The one reason the American economy was ever doing good is because smart business men provide for the stupid people. Now the economy is going down because stupid people cannot last forever

KeyTasks (which is an Outlook Sync utility) is $9.99. When you look at the fine print, that’s $9.99 PER YEAR!! For a tasks app and synching utility!

I wish there was an easy way to identify these apps. Actually, maybe the iTunes Store should have the responsibility to make it clear?

The MLB At Bat application is outstanding, and considering how much it costs for the cable/satellite baseball package or the online video baseball package it is a STEAL.

$5 per season for on demand video clicks of action as it happens is an excellent deal.

People can’t just give away all their content, it costs money to produce. This “everything should be free” mantra is completely and utter nonsense. People have to make a living.

The App Store doesn’t support subscriptions so this is really the only way for MLB to offer a subscription like service given the limitations of the App Store. They will just release a new version of the app each year. It makes perfect sense.

Anyone that has a problem with this doesn’t know the value of the content and isn’t the target audience anyway.

To a baseball fan paying $5 for what this provides in the palm of your hand is not a big deal. Think about it. You spend that much going to Starbucks to get some coffee. The different? The coffee will be gone within an hour, the MLB app will keep providing content for an entire baseball season. Thats 6+ months worth of baseball goodness.

Quit complaining.