In fact, I agree with both posts above that the 90 days limit is too short because if you have to use more than 15 points (which is too small), you spend more money compared to the cheapest way of 15 points / 90 days but when the game was free you also were loosing the same money (and even more) compared to the cheapest way which was to not buy any points at all. So in these cases you were paying 100% for the mine or farm or auction you were buying, now you pay 100% minus the game "fee" of 15 points / 90 days on the fist buy in 90 days.
In my case, the admin analysis saying that if the player has a way of playing for free, he won't pay most of the time is perfectly true... but I agree it is not fair for the developer/maintainer unless he has another form of reward to offer the game.
My suggestion of buying points in game with game cash is a way of using excess game cash for who has it to play for free (or for less) or to buy subdivisions requiring a lot of points without paying real money for them and for the game maintainer to earn the same money because somebody has to buy the game points before putting them for sale (it's almost the same as converting points to game cash but allowing to convert game cash to points also in the same operation). The game admin would receive the same amount but not paid by the same players. I play another game where you have this option and it works very well.
As an example, using the actual 1 point converting to 5M game cash, one can buy a 50 points farm buying 5 points from 10 other players who paid 5 USD each buying the points. Each point owner will receive 25M game cash and the points buyer will pay 250M game cash instead of 50 USD. The admin will receive the same 50 USD... I'm pretty sure I will never pay 50 USD for a game division but I would certainly pay 250M game cash for it!
This would be a solution also for those who can't use a credit card in international exchange or open/feed a PayPal account for legal or other reasons.
I also think that the removal of the company when not paid is too heavy and there should be a grace period (only blocking account) of at least 60/90 days (if not a year) before removal and loosing everything done. Someone can have a problem and be unable to buy the points for a while, like a trip, loss of internet connection, a computer or credit card problem or even being ill or suffering an accident at the date the points should be used or purchased and this is not a sufficient reason to loose all the work done. I'm almost sure a guy with a big company deleted will stop playing in most cases as he will probably have not much fun redoing the same thing again! |