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MC Banhammer

Avatar: 1887 2011-07-31 00:40:59 -0400
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[Good Omens]

Level 69 Troll

Trying to create drama to drum up the ratings by any means necessary!

Okay, I’ve had some time to ruminate, and this is what I’ve come up with.

If I look at “forever” as 2.5 years, then I’m being asked to pay one dollar per month for the extra functionality. That’s — not too bad, actually. BUT — and it’s a big BUTT — here are the problems with the way this was presented:

1) When lumped together into one sum, the sum seems to much. There’s no guarantee the site will BE here in 2.5 years, so we’re being asked to pay in advance for something which could very likely disappear. If it were presented as a “we will debit your account 10 BP per month for the next 36 months, and the functionality will disappear if you can’t pay”, that would probably have flown better.

2) The features aren’t worth that kind of money to a consumer. ET may think he’d be getting back the cost of the time he spent implementing them, but given that entire episodes took WAY longer, and gave you so MUCH more, that’s a very unbalanced view.

3) The timing could not be worse. ET JUST got a job, so FW isn’t his main source of income any more. Along with that, he’s indicated that updates are going be MUCH LESS FREQUENT going forward, and they weren’t exactly rolling out before. With all that he’s asking for more than twice as much money as 2+ YEARS of development work. It’s a good thing ET’s new job is in programming, not marketing.

4) Along those lines, really we’re at endgame. And there’s not much to do at endgame that justifies the use of the current Orange features. The only way this is going to be considered worth it, imo, is if you get MissionBuildr out, and let those who purchase Orange create and distribute their own missions.

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