Acid Flux Posted:

So, do we want to set a precedent that high-end donors get to play by a different set of rules?

Something similar to this happened in the very early days of Kingdom of Loathing, at least three custom items were created as a quid pro quo due to huge donations. In retrospect, Jick considers all but one of these to be huge mistakes for varying definition of “huge”, so it’s probably a precedent that ET should avoid setting, since it’s not entirely improbable that he would end up regretting it later on. What’s even better than learning from your own mistakes is “learning from the mistakes of others in similar situations”, since that doesn’t require you to make mistakes in the first place. If/When ForumWarz explodes in terms of popularity/playerbase, “being able to buy favors from the admins with money” is a precedent that the admins will almost certainly regret.