Confession

I used to run a pretty notable bot company (no longer in business)

Me and other bot owners (that are still well and active today) used to sell eachother and work together on bot modules. We used to purposefully degrade modules on different releases so consumers would own all of our bots.

Dumbed down:

Release 1 Bot A - majority checkouts Bot B - some checkouts Bot C - flops

Users of Bot C buy Bot’s A & B

Release 2 Bot A - flops Bot B - majority checkouts Bot C - some checkouts

and so on and so fourth, we figured botters would buy anything so why not buy all of our bots. Most bot companies today still do this.