I tried to valuate and quantify the proposed benefits to compare with the proposed Drive price. An almost wholly subjective and most frequently arbitrary analysis follows.
To encourage streaming, SLR has proposed a $9.99 charge for downloading an AI PT. Divide that by an arbitrary metric of 3 years to indicate the difference between owning and renting for a month gets you a value of $.28 per AI PT scene per month.
No price has been proposed for downloading Drive AI funscripts. My general conclusion is that the price will be similarly high to encourage streaming. Its worthwhile to consider that Drive scripts will be partially equivalent to commissioned scripts -- both involve the buyer's choice in scenes and both have a limited buyer population with which to spread cost/profit. That would lean towards an inflated price. On the other hand, there is the impact of prejudice against AI-generated content to bring that price down. On top of that you have the own versus rent calculation. Disregarding the further array of potential variables lands me at an incredibly arbitrary $.50 per AI script per month.
The storage by itself has no use for me, but, as an enabler for the AI services, there is a value associated with more space. 30 credits with 30 GB would be unusable. My personal view is that you need about 10 GB per credit (20 GB average video size with 2 credits used per video). That means a 30 credit allotment would need at least 300 GB. How much is a 67% increase to 500 GB in storage worth? No idea, so I'll value it at an arbitrary 33.5% markup.
15 credits used on AI PT X $.28 = $4.20
15 credits used on AT scripts X $.50 = $7.50
$11.70 + 33.5% storage upgrade = $15.62
So my wildly arbitrary valuations come pretty damn close to the proposed $14.99.
