I’m trying to get into the head of whoever priced this (ET or JB, or both of them at their meeting), and the only reasons I can see for the high lifetime cost are two, which I will now rebut.

1) As an encouragement for people to pay the lower monthly rates over a period of time. I suppose this might be a legitimate reason, except the real target crowd of people who will buy it is most likely the long-timers anyway. Although I could see some people spending the 60 BP option to play through the episodes. Maybe.

2) Because they plan to add many features to Orange to make it worth the cost. That would make sense, and I would support that, but the features currently offered do NOT make it worth the cost. If this is the true motivation, then I suggest redoing it and making each feature a separately purchasable item, for reasonable prices (which I will try to come up with probably tomorrow), and forget about the packaging of Orange as a whole.