What should the pricing and distribution of the game be like?

[Holy_spike]

what you mean by customizing it?  like a new look or something?

[Montenegro]

Could work.  Just not porn please.  I don\'t think that will put players in a good roleplaying stat of mind.  \'Its christmas at ground zero, theres panic in the crowd...\' gotta love weird al.

I always wondered about this.  I have a friend who refuses to even look at this game because he thinks he\'ll get into it then it will die cause it has no business plan on the site.  I tell him \'have faith\' but hes like, and atheist.  Meh, anyway, cash flow = problem.  banner = possible solution.  But I swear to god, a banner in game would be obnoxious.  I would probably retch at least once a day while playing j/k  remember, this is the deluded writing of a sleep deprived slacker in college, at 3:00 AM, who has to get up at 8:00 AM....to work 12 hours that day.

[Lenric]

Originally posted by Kendaro
that idea wouldnt go well with magic. the way it would work with an item is that a normal player would have bought a sword that does 50 damage and is a speed of 30. he also has a shield that is armor points of 60. both gotten from an ingame vender for a handfull of in game money. now the player that payed real cash would have a fancy looking gem encrested sword that is 50 damage and 30 speed. also would have a golden shield with vibrant colors that was 60 armor points. you couldn\'t quite do that with magic. there isnt much you could change with a spell and make it the same effect and mana cost as a normal spell.

That isnt totally true for instance regarding different spells that you could change.

here is one type i gotta go and will update this fully later.

Magic missle

Different colors for the missles
knives
icicles
flames
arrows
darts
etc etc im sure you understand

[Holy_spike]

3 am?! damn... youll have one hell of a day.  Im cranky if i dont get 6 hrs min.

[Dumb Woob]

when i say make weapons and armor customizable i mean that yuo can pay and get a custom design of your making or choosing to put on your armors, but it needs to be where you can do it as much as u want once u buy the design so you can upgrade your armor without worry... and it disappears if you lose it in a duel or something...

[cmhitman]

isn\'t mandatory banner clicking illegal? I\'ve seen it implementent on websites but at the end site they always say something like:\"if the site you linked to us from made you click here please put there address here and we\'ll...\"
I think this is a great idea but is it legal?

[PdogNZ]

I\'m not sure if it\'s ilegal but it\'s definately frowned upon.

[Cyonamie]

I am totally against paying for anything jus so it looks cooler.  i mean people are always saying everquest is a pos, even with luclin, o wow, u no look twice as good! jus making something so it looks special and costs 10 bucks is never worth it.  cuz your jus paying for a bunch of 1\'s and 0\'s to go across the screen and make it look pretty.  

[humanscab]

hi  i am new to the forums
i thought of a good idea for that pay problem
why dont you put ads in the game?
wouldn\'t it be cool to just sit down at the bar and see
an ad for nike on the wall?
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scratch that idea..

[Kada-El]

Originally posted by Cyonamie
I am totally against paying for anything jus so it looks cooler  

But there is no game advantage in paying and having custom stuff, so it\'s not necessary that you do. It would just be a nice reward if people did want to donate, I would love to design something for my character to wear or carry and would be happy to make a donation for the priviledge.

Welcome to the forum Humanscab, you\'re right about scrapping that idea, a Nike advert would be awful to see in the game\'s setting!.....ummm nice name =/

[gwydion2]

Let\'s keep it simple! No prices!!!

[MoRpHiNe]

Ok, im a RTS player, just heard bout this game like 2 weeks ago, thought I\'d just drop a few idea\'s in, Banners on the site is good, paying for items such as special swords, custom armor, customized by person buying is good, custom house buying is kew with me, i\'d pay, and just a normal donation type thing works, i\'d pay like 50$ just to get game goin if i had job (hey im only 15 what can i say, i need a job), tho banners in-game is prolly the most annoying thing i have ever heard, had experiences w/ battle.net and starcraft sh!t where i got pist cause those banners made me zone out for like 30 mins..

[MoRpHiNe]

ok ok, i just came up with this one 5 mins after i posted, they should sell T-shirt\'s and cups and other promotions of thier game, if they make a hoody shirt for 10$ (just an idea) and sell it for 15-20 they would make a 5-10$ profit plus it would advertise thier own site, they could also sell other products such as cups, mugs, hats, mouse pads, and other promotional items

[MoRpHiNe]

ya ya, i kno, i come up w/ alot of crazy idea\'s but these ones are kinda messed up...
ok first, they could sell out web space such as, like i\'ve seen, http://www..planeshift.it  w/ like 10$ a year for 10 MB of web space without ads... (pricing i just made up, not a real estimate)
another one could be e-mail services, such as @planeshift.it  for like 10-15$ a year
and they could have special platinum and gold packages that mix the two... (once again price is not a real estimate just a random number)
these were just a couple more idea\'s i came up with wile i was in shower, dont ask me how i came up with them...

[Dumb Woob]

what u talking aobut morphine?