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« on: April 18, 2016, 06:51:26 pm »
I am very concern about the price structure propose from 2017 (month payment). I cannot foresee nothing good about that; and as i can see i am not the only one.
I do understand that some people are willing to pay a game before even knowing the game; for others this is not true. I believe lots of Dominion players start as guests, then move to base players, make an account in the forum as they start climbing in the ranking, start playing league games, champioships,etc, then move to enhance the community=making articles, do streaming, helping maintain a small but ongoing Dominion community. Between those steps players bye expansions which keep the wheel spinning.
At this moment instead of trying to make newer players approach the game and existing ones consume products you are telling players: "if you want to play pay, otherwise leave".
I found difficult to understand the approach you had taken to make Dominion profitable for merely two persons. Its hard not to ask if selling hats (alt art, badges, screens, card borders, sounds), getting money from advertisements, money from tournaments you could organize among others was not enough to keep the business viable (dont forget the money from selling expansions). Empire would be only yours to sell ($).
I dont want to be read as someone who is crying over something that is settle, but like a potential client who was about to get every expansions and that is told that product is no longer available.
I hope i am wrong and the community grows. I love the game, but i am not willing to pay a month fee. Some months i just play tournament games....is 3$ reasonable to play only one season league? I dont know, but i rather had every card to play wherever i want.
For last i want to mention something no one has: the effect of your price structure to MF. With this claim you had buried MF possibilities of making any profit, no one is going to bye expansions late 2016..... or maybe now. Not only you have honored players purchases but you have heavily affect MF incomes. From day to night i feel pity for MF, they where inefficient but i think they dont deserve this as they have improve and they have given us something you are not willing to from 2017.
Capting new player should be the main issue of every Dominion implementations onwards; hope my post remember Stef and SCSN that.