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Originally Posted by Burningsoul
I'm completely against this. If android games have taught us anything, it's that people have cash to blow on stupid microtransactions. Hopefully the droprate of these buyable items isn't going to be abysmally low. I'll gladly donate to help with server costs (and have done so in the past on many servers), but watching people with cash to burn just gear themselves up kind of sucks from the people who have to camp it.
Also, that "almost everything" line worries me. Not trying to sound so Cary/Orionsun towards you, I know bandwidth isn't free and people like to be compensated for the time and effort put into a server, but I went from amiable to dubious with that last post.
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Mind you, the server hasn't even hit Alpha this is ALL CHANGEABLE AND IS NOT A SOLID THING. Jahar and I haven't even talked about donations, at all. Not even breathed a word about it, the ONLY reason I brought this up, is Maze had mentioned paying for content, and I was trying to reassure that THERE IS NO PAYING FOR CONTENT THERE IS NO PAYING FOR ANYTHING EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD SAY *pay for* IS DROPPABLE OR OBTAINABLE WITHOUT PURCHASING IT.
I actually had it set to EVERYTHING you can buy will drop in game, I guess I changed the wrong thing when I was going back to my first post and modifying it... that was completely my bad... I can't think of an item that we won't have in game that is only obtainable through donations. I know for one of our Game Master events we're going to have a 'Ring of the Vampire' drop off every time you complete said Game Master event - which was also going to be able to be purchased. --This was on Amarda when we were doing it. I was thinking we'd carry that type of thing over...
Donations will be just that donations. You might get like a Illusion item maybe? Or something that is more cosmetic then 'Pay to win' type item.
I suck at wording things... The best way I can break it down is; Say you were farming... A Mana Signet(Not an actual item) for 30 hours, and it doesn't drop, you get mad and say 'well I'm just gonna buy it', so you buy it.
Meanwhile PlayerB starts farming A Mana Signet and it drops his first go, that's pure RNG, nothing we as Game Master can do to help that (Besides raise the drop chance, which will not happen :P).
We are leaving it COMPLETELY in your hands to decide if you want to farm that item or buy that item
I know I posted this at the start, but I'll post it here too;
Mind you, the server hasn't even hit Alpha this is ALL CHANGEABLE AND IS NOT A SOLID THING. Jahar and I haven't even talked about donations, at all. Not even breathed a word about it, the ONLY reason I brought this up, is Maze had mentioned paying for content, and I was trying to reassure that THERE IS NO PAYING FOR CONTENT THERE IS NO PAYING FOR ANYTHING EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD SAY *pay for* IS DROPPABLE OR OBTAINABLE WITHOUT PURCHASING IT.