by terrafutan on Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:47 pm
Would it be cost prohibitive to move the prem players over to a dedicated server so that they get a faster game server than the non premium.
What happens then is that with the prem guys on their own server and the capacity on the non prem servers will allow you to go back to having 4 games.
I think the whole cause of dropping games for non prem, is the unlimited capacity you are allowed once you fork out 20 bucks. I think $20 for a year is extremely cheap. Some may differ, its an opinion.
More people playing means more concurrent games. The fact that this caused you to limit the people who you most want playing, those trying the game out before they buy is going to hurt you in the long run I think. I currently have 14 games running, and I am now thinking that this is doing nothing for helping the server out if I want more peeps to join and pay so we can get better servers.
Rough suggestion, and no doubt gonna piss off the people who paid money(who I count among before you start flaming me for being cheap) but better for the game in the long run.
Limit the prem people(not permanently) to 10 games and the non prem to 4, until you have enough prems to earn some profit and get a dedicated server with unlimited games for the prems while bumping the non prems to 6. I dont think the wait should be too long if with prem you get adedicated server, I know a few people that would convince to signup.
Think it beneits everybody in a few months, faster servers for prem, more games to play before buying for the non prem