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Re: Forbidden site

By Beercloud
12/13/2019 5:34 am
I couldn't agree with ColonelFailure more. Not to mention this cult community is lights out.

Re: Forbidden site

By tribewriter
12/13/2019 1:49 pm
ColonelFailure wrote:
@JDB - you're not charging enough. Nowhere near. The game you have now is perfectly commercially viable. Does it have issues? Sure. But even with those issues I'd pay a subscription to play it. The upside of the subscription model is that you're far less likely to have owners randomly disappear from their teams. The down side is fewer players overall as you won't have freeloaders - or worse still freeloaders who adblock (pro-tip - there's already an adblocker for the game, it's called "buying credits".)

I bought $40 in credits when signing up, and with that I've run a league for 5 seasons, buying the right to edit every team each year. I still have $35 in credits left - you're not charging enough!

If you need some interim funding to cover the next AWS bill, stick up a Ko-Fi or GoFundMe link and run a month-long campaign to drum up some donations. I'd encourage all my guys to chip in as, I suspect, many other league admins would. Or you could go a step further and start a Patreon page to help fund ongoing development.


+1 on all of this. I have played a lot of online sports sims, and I think MFN is the best overall value I have run across.

There is a healthy balance between price-gouging and giving away something for nothing. I don't think reasonable adults should legitimately expect the latter.

Re: Forbidden site

By Lucky
2/03/2020 11:57 am
My advice it to charge 5 dollars a month as a subscription, and then provide 5 credits at the same time. If you go sub model, you have to be on a schedule and people are going to want to know what the goals are and what you are doing. A lack of clear communication about the game in the current state and what changes are being made isn't gonna work when you start asking people to pay for it.

You could also use the above approach and provide the public leagues for free while needing the sub to access the custom leagues.