Account upgrades....

[DavidK]

The idea of bringing in extra money to pay for your servers, is very good, but quite expensive... 10$ a month for the lowest level seems pretty overpriced. I know we see a lot of players running around with coloured name-tags, but the numbers of them will probably thin out... Nobody wants to pay over time. People of course will, but perhaps it might increase your sales, if you made it a one purchase, lifetime. However, make this an additional option to the current, and make the single purchases $100.00. Then the people who think they will play for 9 months or less will buy monthly, and the players who think they will play 10 months or more can go for 100$, and have a permanent. Not many people will pay 100$ for a Minecraft server, and fewer still will actually play on the survival games for more than 10 months. Therefore, a few people will spring for 100$, but probably not play for 10 months.

So:
$100 = Lifetime Iron
$125 = Lifetime Gold
$150 = Lifetime Diamond

As you can see I have just added the extra price from the higher ranks (monthly) to the higher levels... Perhaps these should be doubled so:

$100 = Lifetime Iron
$150 = Lifetime Gold
$200 = Lifetime Diamond

Tell me what you think! If this does come to pass then I will probably donate.

 

[HalfSquirrel]

No. Servers cost a lot of money monthly and there are 56 servers to pay for. That's a TON of money being used each month to keep these servers up. It has to stay monthly, but maybe a yearly option would be nice too ($110 Iron instead of $120, $275 instead of $300 for Gold, $550 instead of the normal Diamond $600 for a year). A lifetime option wouldn't help the server, and your options are awful because the Gold donors pay $25 per month and the diamond donors pay $50 per month.
If you only payed once, sure there would be more donors, but there would probably be about HALF the amount of servers there are right now. Not happening.

 

[zeejayy]

You see, the problem with that is.. Chad pays for these servers every month so, if everyone bought lifetime donor, the flow of money would run dry.

 

[ChadTheDJ]

Plus too, if I make lifetime donors, this community could possibly change a lot a year from now. We figured $10 is low enough for anyone to pitch in as I don't want to be like other servers who want a lot upfront. These sponsored accounts will actually carry over to the other gameplay we are adding (the creative and survival servers) and you will be donating for "3" servers.

If I ever make something yearly once we are stable enough, I can possibly look into long term accounts like maybe 3 to 6 months. I still think annually is way too long.

Thank you for your suggestion you guys and keep them coming!

 

[BHLxLiam]

i would donate but as it is monthly i am not as i cant afford to pay $10 every month

 

[HalfSquirrel]

i would donate but as it is monthly i am not as i cant afford to pay $10 every month

So pay $10 for 1 month and then don't donate anymore

 

[Stijn]

Servers cost a monthly fee, so they have to make it monthly.

 

[BHLxLiam]

So pay $10 for 1 month and then don't donate anymore

yeah but then you only get the perks for one month

 

[HalfSquirrel]

yeah but then you only get the perks for one month

Well it's not like you're going to play on these servers for years, so why not?

 

[BHLxLiam]

Well it's not like you're going to play on these servers for years, so why not?

yeah i will i will peob be on here for at least another 3 years if its still around by that time !

 

[Stijn]

that's €360
To be paid in parts of €10 p/m

 

[HalfSquirrel]

yeah i will i will peob be on here for at least another 3 years if its still around by that time !

Maybe. But I get bored of playing something when I play for (at most) a year. Maybe this will be a new record But anyways, I still think it's good how it is, and maybe wait for when Chad opens up a 3-6 month option (whatever he was thinking of)