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I’d pay about $10 I guess, but for that i’d expect ATLEAST a good month’s worth of content, and more in the way of player-player interaction (considering thats around what most mmorpg’s charge for a month of play – and to be fair, those are fully fledged commerical games, not works in progress). That said I prefer the donation model (I’ve chipped in $30 for a ‘free’ game, mainly because I had fun, and wish to support the devleopment team – though i’m guessing i’m in the minority there). I’d also be worried that should a pay to play system be implemented, a large proportion of the player base would leave, which would make me less likely to want to play anyway. Just as an after though, could you not do something along the lines of, click on 1 advert = 1 forum visit (still capped at 4 obviously) for non payers? I’m guessing that would not significantly hurt the player base, provide some income from the ‘non-payers’, and be sufficiently irritating for those that can afford to support forumwarz, to do so.
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Posted On: 03/25/2008 4:19PM | View Dez666's Profile | # | ||||||
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Dez – ET has said before that he doesn’t intend to charge people who’ve already donated. |
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Posted On: 03/25/2008 4:46PM | View Bill_Murray_Fan_...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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As much as I enjoy FW, I’d have to say no. |
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Posted On: 03/25/2008 4:53PM | View PseudoNymph's Profile | # | ||||||
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If I had a way of paying, Id probably pay like $10 at most… |
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Posted On: 03/25/2008 4:58PM | CptJackbum | # | ||||||
PIMPTASTIC-FROTH Posted:
Well thats cool, Log in to see images! I still stand by everything I said though. Was no whinning about paying, was putting my opinion across. Perhaps shouldn’t have mentioned I’d donated, as it doesn’t really change 1 iota of my post/opinion Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 03/25/2008 4:59PM | View Dez666's Profile | # | ||||||
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As much as I like Forumwarz, I couldn’t see myself paying for the next episode. I’ve already donated $30…money’s not the issue. If you make it to where people have to pay to play, many users are going to be unable/unwilling to pay, and leave.
Now…if you were thinking about using Flezz/scoops…that could be a good way to boost activity, and of course let people pay their way in if they don’t have the time to acquire the amount of Flezz necessary…I dunno. I don’t really agree with the pay-to-play model, but this is an alternative I’d be willing to deal with. |
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Posted On: 03/25/2008 7:27PM | View CaptainDDL's Profile | # | ||||||
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I like the idea of just paying for features/whatever.
If they need more money just extend the brownie point system a bit. |
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Posted On: 03/25/2008 7:35PM | View lulz56's Profile | # | ||||||
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as much fun as episode one was, I already have a wow account which I pay for…(or get my man to pay for I should say) and not enough time to fully enjoy that. Where as this is fun, half of the reason its fun is because its free. I play this when my guild members are not on… |
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Posted On: 03/26/2008 2:34AM | View littlewashu's Profile | # | ||||||
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Yeah, because I can’t imagine it would cost much. |
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Posted On: 03/26/2008 3:20AM | View 1337xxxxxxxxxlol...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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Freelancer working w/small businesses & startups says at least another episode before fees, if then. Unless your objective is to lose members or keep the game small & exclusive? Your core audience (or a good portion) seems to be college students and younger and “a couple hours at mcdonald’s” isn’t the solution. Think of the competition for entertainment dollars & sheer # of free games. Just ask the major label record companies how free vs. pay is working out for them. NOT that you’re evil profit-whore bloodsucking parasitic sgreat times, mind you, but I think the analogy is apt.
CZ, you’re working hard and not seeing profits, stuff you need to expand is expensive, but think longer term, gaining ‘net cred & goodwill, word of mouth, and good press goes a long way. Those things you can’t buy.
People pay me money for this kind of advice. I’d donate and pay for ep. 2, but my business is just starting to take off and I’m still too far in debt.
I’ll give you a 100% discount on my services if you want to hire me. Log in to see images!
ZOMBIE_HEDGEHOG edited this message on 03/26/2008 4:15AM |
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Posted On: 03/26/2008 4:14AM | View ZOMBIE_HEDGEHOG's Profile | # | ||||||
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I’d pay… if I knew what in the world I was paying for. |
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Posted On: 03/26/2008 8:59AM | View Vince Russo's Profile | # | ||||||
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Good point.
t’would be fun to be able to play the forums in that forumbuildr section though, even if just to get some XPs… |
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Posted On: 03/26/2008 9:27AM | View loli_fapper_kita...'s Profile | # | ||||||
loli_fapper_kita_111 Posted:
You already can. Click on the forum name then ‘Play this Forum!’
Or is there something about your post that i’m missing? |
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Posted On: 03/26/2008 6:27PM | View Finch's Profile | # | ||||||
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Nope you’re not missing anything, thanks for the info.
I’m just a stupid re-re Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 03/27/2008 5:56AM | View loli_fapper_kita...'s Profile | # | ||||||
No point in going there though: you can’t get past level 10, and I never got any lemon sherbet scoops for pwning a forum ‘in record time’ there. So you have to stick with always the same forums if you want to earn enough scoops to compete in the domination thing, and after 4 days I’m already bored like hell.
As for the pay2play thing, not a chance in the ****ing world, there’s thousands of flash games and cool free stuff on the net so no point in paying IMO.
I would buy a shirt though, and I would love a make your own shirt or wallpaper option based on the game and all the memes it derives.
Were I an emo-kid I would surely die for a “YOU PWNED THE ****TY FORUM OF LIFE IN RECORD TIME, you’ve earned a lemon sherbet scoop” shirt. But as a good troll I will settle for “YOU FAPPED OVER YOUR KEYBOARD 12 TIMES IN A ROW, you’ve earned a pistachio scoop, the one you ate 4 months ago and let roll behind your desk”. |
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Posted On: 03/27/2008 12:22PM | View Schmaluk's Profile | # | ||||||
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It’s not hard to get them in record time. I keep my index finger over the “1” on my keyboard for after pwning a thread. As it tells me the thread died, I scroll my mouse over to the next attack I’m going to do (thinking ahead). Sure I could use the keyboard for all ym controls but this works fine for me. I net 10 lemons the other day, almost 11. Anyway, needless threadjack.
I can understand not wanting to pay though, I really do. I myself haven’t given them any money, and believe me, I’m certainly not poor. Thought about buying Friend of Forumwarz plutonium level (which, personally, I would think should have a glowing green color- even if it is a slivery white… I equate uranium with yellow). But I am stingy, and haven’t given them a dime. Maybe one of these days, bam, zoom, straight to the moon. |
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Posted On: 03/27/2008 2:07PM | View Balloon's Profile | # | ||||||
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I’d pay. A lot of cool work went into this, and a lot of fun has been had, for free, by me. Would rather Mr. Trout et al were compensated in some small way by us rather than players and creators getting increasingly ****ed off about servers blowing and lagtimes between updates and then it just being abandoned with an ‘Episode 3 Coming Soon!’ sign up on the website forever….
This is worth paying for. How much, I dunno, but I’d kick in five bucks a month, sure. |
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Posted On: 03/28/2008 9:23AM | View DarknessOnTheEdg...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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i liek this game, but not enuf 2 pay. |
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Posted On: 03/28/2008 10:00AM | View Sxxy_Saide_69's Profile | # | ||||||
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I really hope that they work out mail-orders by the time ep2 comes around – it would help them keep a lot of users who don’t have/want credit cards/paypal/etc. |
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Posted On: 03/30/2008 2:45AM | View Bill_Murray_Fan_...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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So I read the first three pages of this topic (read: glanced over the content and didn’t bother to process much if anything) and came to the following thought:
What if there were a middle ground, a la the ‘free(insert desirable expensive electronic device name here).com’ or the ‘(insert some other technically free browser game that offers incentive for clicking links daily)’ deal where there is a page of sponsored links (I’m partial to a tab that reads: ‘two dolla tricks’Log in to see images! of pay-per-click ads?
In the short term, for any given player, it isn’t much revenue. However, with as many bumholes as we already have here (especially ones like me that don’t want to keep wasting tenbux) over a moderate time period, it’d maybe be a decent way for people to generate revenue.
Keep track of clicks with some sort of clever moniker like ‘miser points’ or some such, and figure out some metric whereby you can equate miser points to tenbux and figure out how many links a random schmuck must click in order to get the pay-to-play content. |
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Posted On: 03/30/2008 3:02AM | View DOPE-HARDCORE-0's Profile | # | ||||||