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Brownie Points overpriced? Read this.
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DesdiPhoenix Posted:
****ty gaypron imo. Should be a bannable offense. Also, move Nicco to Full of Won. Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 4:55PM |
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Log in to see images!Were no strangers to love You know the rules and so do i A full commitments what Im thinking of You wouldnt get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how Im feeling Gotta make you understand
* never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Weve know each other for so long Your hearts been aching But youre too shy to say it Inside we both know whats been going on We know the game and were gonna play it
And if you ask me how Im feeling Dont tell me youre too blind to see
(* repeat)
Give you up. give you up Give you up, give you up Never gonna give Never gonna give, give you up Never gonna give Never gonna give, five you up
I just wanna tell you how Im feeling Gotta make you understand
(* repeat 666 times) Log in to see images! BRAWWRR! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 4:57PM |
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Sperman Posted:
**** off
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 4:58PM |
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Trolling aside, our operating costs from a technical standpoint aren’t that high. You guys can price the servers yourself (although we have things like a second disk drive, extra ram, 8 cores).
In that blog post of why Forumwarz costs money, I said we have enough to keep the site running for a while. Nobody is going to pull the plug on Forumwarz any time soon, we have enough in the bank to keep the servers running for a while. That’s cool.
However, we like updating the game!
To create new content, and constantly add new features like we do takes a lot of human time. Those humans need to eat and pay rent and stuff, and that’s where the biggest costs come in now.
I’m the only full time employee, and right now I get paid much less than I would at a regular programming job. When you factor even a small human salary into your calculations, you have to sell thousands of copies of Episode 2 to break even. That’s the big thing you’re missing.
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 4:58PM |
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Nicco Posted:
DND BRAWWRR! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:00PM |
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Evil Trout Posted:
I hadn’t realized that this was your source of income. That being said, any argument over price is completely off base. If I wasn’t buying a house this week, I’d buy some more BP. God knows the economy is crap right now. People seriously need to lay off of the price ****ing. om nom nom Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:02PM |
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ET posted.
/thread
Much as it doesn’t show, when ET does actually show his face, I must show much respect.
(I still think I could help CZ cut corners and make it run smoother Log in to see images! Log in to see images! Log in to see images! http://falconfour.com/bumhurt-cinematic |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:04PM |
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DesdiPhoenix Posted:
I’m the only full time employee, although Jalapeno has to always take unpaid leave from work to do writing too.
There’s a surpising amount of work involved in keeping a site like this running Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:04PM |
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yes BRAWWRR! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:04PM |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:07PM |
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Evil Trout Posted: om nom nom Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:09PM |
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Evil Trout Posted:
Anybody else notice who’s missing?
Gawd I’m happy this thread is in an RP forum Log in to see images!
I'M A SIG-DISABLING COCKMONGLER
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:13PM |
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Evil Trout Posted:
Well, on the topic of getting moar money, there are a good many people ****ing about the sole use of PayPal, and that can’t buy BP because of it. I imagine if you found a secondary payment processor, that would be additional money in your wallet; any processing fee the other processors impose on payments would be made irrelevant by the fact that you wouldn’t’ve even had those purchases without them anyway!
More people would buy more BP if they were cheaper, along the lines of $1 = 1bp, or lower. Simple logic of “lower price = more people buying it”. I’d love to buy extra BP, but it provides so little enjoyment for so much cost, it’s not worth it.
Additional BP sinks would also be beneficial. Finding a way to make it so that the “cheater” functions aren’t permanent disqualifiers for multiplayer functions, so people can actually buy them and still be able to enjoy the persistent functionality of the game (dom, incit, forumbuildr, leaderboards). Increasing the value of the Lottery Winner cheat (for the love of god), to at least show that CZ is still paying attention to their business model, which 100,000 shows that CZ hasn’t even looked at the BP “store” since Ep.2 launched (consumer faith, much?).
And improving server performance (less need for additional hardware) would be done by optimizing the backup routine. My guess is that the backup is mangling with the webserver functionality, and when both are running, the backup takes significantly longer to process than it needs to. That causes horrendous headaches between 12am and 1am (PST) that the webserver should just be suspended for. Either that or your backup software isn’t exactly living up to its promise of “without disrupting the server”... because good god I am so sick of “504 Gateway Time-Out” every night. Maybe a simple MySQL export and tar|gzip would fit the purpose? Log in to see images!
Just my $0.03. Log in to see images! Log in to see images! http://falconfour.com/bumhurt-cinematic |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:22PM |
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Lol Running a high bandwidth intensive game on old desktop computers. Log in to see images! Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:27PM |
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Raepdog Posted:
Bandwidth intensive my bum, it’s all AJAX. Loading gmail’s Javascript probably takes more bandwidth than all of playing Ep. 1. Log in to see images! Log in to see images! http://falconfour.com/bumhurt-cinematic |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 5:30PM |
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Et is bang on with the sallary stuff: read this, http://www.forumwarz.com/discussions/view_post/362462 ; my breakdown from the earlier thread on how much a site like this may cost to run In soviet russia God worships YOU!!!! |
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| Posted On: 12/08/2008 7:41PM |
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