Just going over the Changes Reference Document and looking at new costs. Doubled for knowledge and more then tripled for activesofts. At max rating the price changes from 12,000 to 40,000! Why the massive increase in price? At 10K for a rating 1 only the rich and famous will be utilizing this tech? Intentional?

Because there is a way to end up with basically every skill in the book after one or two days in game time for about 5 to 10% of list-Price, all with 50 built-Points spend on the initial Character.

Or massive corperation who buy the softs in bulk and recycle them. It's intentional because Skillsofts were broken

Actually, even at that rate its still more than affordable for most corps to implant into their wageslaves. Especially since they don't pay that full price most of the time. This is even more true when the soft is somthing they produced themselves.

With those costs, the ability to perform as a Veteran is comparable to buying a low-cost sports car (Ford Spiral at 45k). Performing as just a professional costs even less. The money a wage-slave would make up in the long haul far outweighs those costs. Consider the price of current college (at least in the USA), and the ability to simply buy the skill at once and perform it for those 4 or more years you'd spend studying make it very profitable.

Agreed...

However, In play they are still pretty inexpensive... Cracked versions of the skillsofts are 10% normal costs, though you may have to worry about patching the software on a continuing basis...