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Most ridiculous features you could charge for

I was watching a chess event on chess24.com, and decided i would quickly see how bad the game arena was on there. To my horror you had to be a premium member ( which means coughing up cash) just to select your seek parameters. Which made me think maybe you have to be a premium member to just to have the right to castle!
what features can you think of which would be ridiculous to charge for?
(ps its scary how advanced lichess is compared to these "hi flying" websites)
I heard you need to pay a membership on chess24 to get your game PGN.
i would laugh if that was a joke, that is truly shocking
You have to pay $10 for promoting a pawn to a knight, bishop, rook or queen on chesszilla.co.uk
I checked and it is true. You can't get your PGN without buying a premium membership. http://i.imgur.com/l4bcxlt.png

Some people really have no shame :)
Why not? Fortunately we live in a free world and free market economy and not in socialism, supply and demand..if people don't like it, they won't go premium and the operator will perhaps change their plan. I am premium there - like on any other chess site I like (lichess does not have premium accounts that's why I donate sometimes) and have no problem at all with it. Everything around a prof. websites costs money so why there should be something free?

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