Russ is proposing to increase the subscription fee to $30/year. I get a great deal of enjoyment from this site; at the $20 I paid, that works out at very few pence per hour.
I earn a reasonable wage (as I suspect a large number of other people here do), but I understand that some people here don't. I would have no issue with paying extra for a 'premium' membership, so that others would be able to pay less.
Does anyone else think that this idea has legs?
Originally posted by RavelloTo answer your two points:
Because it's impossible to know who really can pay more and who can't pay.
What are the criteria for choosing who's going to pay more and who's going to have benefits from the users that pay an extra?
Answering your question,this idea has no legs.
1. The people who can afford to pay more - it's voluntary (like some people pay extra to fly business class - no one *forces* them to).
2. Don't really understand your second point - I *think* you mean how do purchased benefits get transferred to thers? Obviously, the person buying the 'premium' subscription would get extra benefits e.g. ability to double rec, special torunaments, free avatars (hosted by the site) etc. I'm sure others can come up with a list of goodies that someone might pay an extra $20-$30 for.
Originally posted by RavelloBut if enough people were willing to pay extra, more people would be able to still pay $20...
What more goodies????
Rhp has almost everything,I don't want it transformed in Gameknot where if you want to upload an avatar in your profile you have to pay a 89,95 $[/b] (yes,89,95!!) annual subscription.[/b]
Originally posted by ivangriceI would like to know some things
But if enough people were willing to pay extra, more people would be able to still pay $20...
1)who are the users who will benefit of the ''blocked'' sub at 20$?
2) how you know that these benefitted users aren't able to pay for the augmentd sub?
3) are the volunteers paying more and the rest of the site paying as usual?
sorry but to me it doesn't make much sense.
I think this is down to personal choice. I, for one, know that when my subs are up in Feb 2005, I won't just be sending Russ £11 (approx $20), I'll probably send him closer to £20-30 cos 1) I can afford it and get a lot of joy from the site and b) I want to support the site and Russ' continued efforts.
Originally posted by ivangrice??? subscribers have equal entitlements...ratings have nothing to do with this
If it's classless, why don't we all have the same rating? :-)
i don't really want to know which players earn a wedge more than me because they get to have special 'treats' ...what next.., seperate tourneys depending on your annual income 😛
Originally posted by wucky3Perhaps - but which is the bigger issue - the materialistic hell you describe, or a significant number of people not renewing their subscriptions/being deterred from joining due to the rasised fee?
??? subscribers have equal entitlements...ratings have nothing to do with this
i don't really want to know which players earn a wedge more than me because they get to have special 'treats' ...what next.., seperate tourneys depending on your annual income 😛
Originally posted by ivangriceYou clearly don't know that the actual users won't pay more,only the new users since 2005 will pay the augmented sub.
Perhaps - but which is the bigger issue - the materialistic hell you describe, or a significant number of people not renewing their subscriptions/being deterred from joining due to the rasised fee?