You can look at this two ways. Not everyone needs to block IP's especially since it can be done at a server/hosting account level (example if you have cPanel you can use IP manager in the cPanel to block ip's).

The way Jon and I look at it is this, Photostore as a whole with everything in it is worth X amount of dollars to us. That is our one price covers all features. If you want all those features you pay that price. If you don't need those features then you can save some money by not getting them.
That is why we usually list a bundle package (all in one) for a good discount. We will be listing this soon on our site but right now we are focused on getting the contributors add-on completed for the next release (4.1 coming soon).

The price Jon and I have to charge is to keep us in business. To Jon and I this is our full time business, we sit down and work over 40 hours a week doing nothing but photo related programming on photostore or our other photo related products. Others (pixaria, cms, etc..) may sell theirs cheaper because it is a hobby or they have other unrelated products to help them. Take a look at what recently happen to pixaria which is exactly what I figured would happen eventually. It was sold it to big company and now prices have changed. This happened to those that used Jamie's (creator of pixaria) pop-photo software back in the day. Usually when a hobbyist gets bored of their project it gets canceled and you’re out support/upgrades. All those people on pixaria will now have to pay $249 (based on their site at the time of this writing) just to get a year of support and upgrades. That is more than we charge for a basic photostore.

Jon and I thought about this for years and we still do, but we can't see charging just one price that may be too much for some that don't need all the features that the pro has. For example some photographers will never plan to upload a video, or allow commenting, etc.. Why should they be forced to purchase the full version at a full price?

Photostore can be used as a simple platform to advertise your photography business. My wife used it for years before she finally got out of the wedding photography business. She landed many clients because of it, got a lot of compliments about her site being nice compared to our competitors locally. It wasn't even really used to sell prints, it was used more as a tool to sell herself, to land new wedding clients. The site basically showed a news area in which she posted info, posted some examples of her work, used the contact us form to answer questions, etc.. All she needed was a basic site, so there was no need at the time when we purchased it to buy the pro version (back when 2.8.3 had a pro and basic version).

Hello.
I am a user of software pixaria, objednejfoto.cz. Unfortunately, sales of large companies, the situation has changed a lot pixaria. Do not respond to queries, poor support ... just problems.
I start looking for a new software and it looks like I choose Ktools.
I used cmsaccound, but it is not good for me. I sell a lot of prints photos and I want to sell products derived from photos.
I'm here ... so I gained your experience.