Optional Subscription to boost the playerbase.

Hi All,

We all want this project to succeed and live a loooooong life.
I have an idea, that the Devs might consider to boost the player base. I will explain in short, what I have in mind.

An Optional Subscription that would grand you faster progress, not "pay to win". I think 5-10 $ per month would be okay to support the community.
For example - +20% xp and coins/feather drops. Strictly no RP bonus, that would be pay to win option.

Another solution would be Optional One Time Activation fee for the bonuses on one character, which is permanent for the character. 5-10 $ easily per toon would be cool enough.

The money could be used for server optimization and most importantly, social media targeted marketing - I am very sure, there are thousands of DAOC veterans, who do not know yet, that they want to return to this classic game

All in all, all of the paid options would be optional. None of them would be pay to win. And with these "donations", the marketing helps to grow the community.

I am not sure about the legal stuff, if it is able to promote a server like this, so if it is not - then just trash my idea and keep on the good work.

Thanks for your attention!

Noooooooob

Mon 1 Oct 2018 1:17 PM by Thinal

These emulators are in a legal grey area, and exist largely because the original IP owners aren't pursuing them legally. I don't know if they have any sort of formal agreements, but I've seen other emulators of multiple games exist without agreements for many years, and still others that have failed because the IP owner was threatening legal action against them before they'd gotten very far into the process. (Generally the threat of legal action is sufficient, and I don't know of any cases where this has actually gone to trial.)

This cooperation would disappear immediately the second anybody charged a penny for any of these services. At that point, what one could consider a harmless endeavor based upon an outdated version of their product or even advertisement for the original product becomes a tangible lost revenue stream. They might be able to accept donations, but generally emulators don't take even that risk.

It's entirely possible they could work out an arrangement with the original IP owners to charge for the game, but it's not something they'd be likely to do unilaterally.

Mon 1 Oct 2018 3:20 PM by Takii

"Not pay to win but you can pay money to be better"

Mon 1 Oct 2018 3:30 PM by florin

Perhaps for titles, skins, or naming of places or mobs?

Mon 1 Oct 2018 6:17 PM by

gruenesschaf

Some donation page will be there either shortly before or shortly after launch but there will never be any kind of benefit whatsoever for donating.

Tue 2 Oct 2018 4:07 PM by poisonclover

Noob wrote: ↑
Mon 1 Oct 2018 9:37 AM
Hi All,

We all want this project to succeed and live a loooooong life.
I have an idea, that the Devs might consider to boost the player base. I will explain in short, what I have in mind.

An Optional Subscription that would grand you faster progress, not "pay to win". I think 5-10 $ per month would be okay to support the community.
For example - +20% xp and coins/feather drops. Strictly no RP bonus, that would be pay to win option.

Another solution would be Optional One Time Activation fee for the bonuses on one character, which is permanent for the character. 5-10 $ easily per toon would be cool enough.

The money could be used for server optimization and most importantly, social media targeted marketing - I am very sure, there are thousands of DAOC veterans, who do not know yet, that they want to return to this classic game

All in all, all of the paid options would be optional. None of them would be pay to win. And with these "donations", the marketing helps to grow the community.

I am not sure about the legal stuff, if it is able to promote a server like this, so if it is not - then just trash my idea and keep on the good work.

Thanks for your attention!

Noooooooob

feathers buy items.. falls into the pay to win.. But im all for player progression bonus. XP/Coin/Crafting bonuses/Reduced realm switch timer/ unlimited respecs etc