Premium Membership Idea

[Tanken]

[Zerran]

I'm not actually 100% sure this is legal, being a mod and all. 

Plus it would probably be a lot of work to keep track of the payments seeing as they would need to be done on a monthly basis and the mod team doesn't exactly have any automated system in place for taking payments on a large scale.

Also paypal decided that it would be a great idea to screw over my account, so I can't use it. 

[Tanken]

In Second Life, generally everything you make for that game is a "Mod", and people can charge money/subscription fees for stuff there.

I would think this is no different, especially if it's going towards the server costs.


They would have to find out a way to charge monthly to an account either through paypal or figuring out a website way to make it a recurring fee on your card as long as you leave it active.

[Digglez]

I'm not actually 100% sure this is legal, being a mod and all. 

Plus it would probably be a lot of work to keep track of the payments seeing as they would need to be done on a monthly basis and the mod team doesn't exactly have any automated system in place for taking payments on a large scale.

Also paypal decided that it would be a great idea to screw over my account, so I can't use it. 

voluntarily giving away your money is not illegal

[zagibu]

It's not voluntarily giving away money, it's paying for a service, which is based on a commercial game. Such stuff is usually illegal, but I couldn't find anything in Warband's EULA.

Second Life is different, because it explicitly endorses that kind of business.

[Teeth]

Never going to happen

[Siiem]

chadz making money on taleworlds game... lawsuit incoming!

[Dravic]

chadz making money on taleworlds game... lawsuit incoming!

Actually it's not making money, it's donating for a server.

Oh rly, in CS there are lots and lots of VIP Premium bullshit accounts and noone complains.

And chadz already did something that can be called "paying for" - Lottery Loerdag.

[MrPink44]

There are tons of games that "take donations" as subscriptions for server maintenance fees and the like out there on the web. I for one wouldn't mind helping pay a little upkeep and tbh I think for Taleworlds whatever has people playing their game still is fine with them. That just keeps people interested for new games/sequels coming out. So I would definitely be on board and the mechanics are actually quite simple through Paypal. I think it's a worthy idea it would just have to be brought to the dev's to see how they feel about it.

[RibaldRon]

I am fairly certain that there's nothing wrong with accepting donations, even if you compensate said donators, so long as the money does not primarily go towards personal use.

Spend it to upgrade servers, pay for server hosting, maybe even pay a little for your own coding or other members of the team (NOT MEGAUPLOAD LEVEL,  less than you'd earn at a gas station..) and I think you're in the clear.



You have to be a pretty big company in order to sue and win over "donations," and the infractions have to be pretty obvious (that dude who was earning, and pocketing $1 million/year off his WoW free server by flat out giving people whatever they wanted for $5/$10 here and there, and continued after repeated warnings comes to mind)

But the first step, I think, would be to try to contact the copyright owners of M&B and ask their thoughts/blessings to do so.  I for one would not mind larger servers ONE BIT.  I have personally witnessed the  strategus servers being nearly completely full, with a lot of spectators complaining about not being accepted, and also randomly down.  Would be nice to have larger battles and more server stability.

Whether or not I agree with the donation bonus or not, I'm unsure.

[Tanken]

Jesus. -6 atm.

I would have thought people who generally support the Mod and its developers would have given +1 or if you opposed it, provided an idea that could be made easier on the Premium Membership idea.


There's clans out there right now that charge a $10 joining fee, is what they are doing any different than this? If they clear their monthly cost of Teamspeak or Ventrilo, where does the majority of that money go? Right back in someone's pocket. At least with this method it could not only provide more server upkeep, but could eventually provide more servers for more game modes as well as reward those whom choose to become Premium Members.

As Pink mentioned, I don't think Taleworlds is going to flip shits over their most successful mod asking for memberships to support upkeep. It's not like it is anything anyone has to subscribe to, it's simply a means to offer players a chance to support the Developers and the Mod. I've played a few mods for HL2 and CS that offered Premium Memberships. Those Mods are still in existence, why would this be any different?

[Zaren]

people paying shouldnt get an advantage. They should be donating because they want to help not to get double xp. The only thing you should get for donating is donator recognition which you already get(on your character page 2rd from the right of the link to the forums).
and name a clan which costs 10 dollars to join..... never heard of one

[Teeth]

chadz has repeatedly said that donating will never give any ingame benefits beyond the lördag lottery. Therefore a Premium Membership will never exist for cRPG. Regardless its lame and would kill half the playerbase.

Also I don't think the devs want to have any obligations towards the community. I don't think they want to lose the 'You don't pay me, so it doesn't matter if I do shit' card.

[Miwiw]

read title - no!
read post - no!
read rest of the thread - no!

just no. everything is fine right now. if you like to support, donate.

[Christo]

The OP and it's rating speaks for itself.