paying for site use?
#1
Posted 01 September 2003 - 08:31 PM
I ask this because i'm thinking of using a pay system for resources. You pay £2 a year and you get to download as many W3D models, voxels, maps or shps as you like. This money would then go to the people who made the resource.
This is just a early thought. Suggestions are welcome.
#2
Posted 01 September 2003 - 08:43 PM
...But if you did it I would make a crapload of resources for Generals, and all really really high quality stuff. How much USA dollars does two pounds equate to?
Its worth looking into. Maybe talk to some of the people who do that for The Sims and see how they did it.
#3
Posted 01 September 2003 - 08:49 PM
I mean, someones got to check that the maker gets the money.
Also, people would just go elsewhere or give up. If i'd found that all the community's resource sites were pay sites, no matter how small the amount, I would never have started modding. Simply because I would have had no way of paying (i'm 15). I know how much money you put into this Detail, but I don't think there's really any way of making some of it back.
#5
Posted 01 September 2003 - 09:23 PM
#6
Posted 01 September 2003 - 09:49 PM
I know I keep saying this, but the Sims people did it, and its entirely possible to make Sim skins and stuff on your on, and sites like the Well Dressed Sim and the Mall of the Sims have a ton of paying subscribers.
#7
Posted 01 September 2003 - 10:16 PM
If i realy thought i was going to make money i would buy some advertising to realy spread the word.
The Sims is a familie game where which mums site down and play, mums have no idea how to make a skin so thay buy them. mums don't play Generals.
#8
Posted 01 September 2003 - 10:27 PM
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#10
Posted 02 September 2003 - 12:51 AM
by the way, i'd never pay for a website's content... sure I've ordered stuff online, but there's hardly anything on a paysite that I can't find for free somewhere else. Hell I've yet to buy a game with a subscription fee... although SW Galaxies and Planetside are tempting... no matter how much it may be worth it, I've always been a pretty conservative person with my money and I'm not about to blow it just to get some stuff I could make/learn on my own.
#11
Posted 10 September 2003 - 02:23 AM
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#12
Posted 12 September 2003 - 11:48 PM
#13
Posted 13 September 2003 - 02:31 AM
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#14
Posted 13 September 2003 - 10:37 PM
#15
Posted 28 September 2003 - 05:08 AM
and I dount enough people would pay for resources when they could get them for free elsewhere to bother setting the pay thing up.
#16
Posted 28 September 2003 - 09:40 PM
BTW- Detail, great why to prove the difference between "the sims' and "generals"
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