You can get rough service lamps that last 10,000hrs but they are slightly more than 10x the price due to better construction of other non-filament parts (thicke

You can get rough service lamps that last 10,000hrs but they are slightly more than 10x the price due to better construction of other non-filament parts (thicker glass, better filament support, etc). I suspect its more of a tragedy of the commons type thing with pricing. Some people when buying products always go with the cheapest initial purchase price regardless of how good of an idea it is. In other cases features beyond the industry norm can actively harm reviews of the product as too many people will misunderstand the feature. A game recently[0] let people set the max draw distance much higher than comparable games. It was blasted in reviews for being "poorly optimized". When the developers reduced the max draw distance by ~50% people started praising them for doing a good job optimizing for that patch when they actually crippled a feature. [0]: Dying Light part of http://www.pcgamer.com/what-optimization-really-means-in-games/3/ http://www.pcgamer.com/what-optimization-really-means-in-gam...