Recurring Payment Method
 

Well, because the price of gold time is now so expensive (and I'm not necessarily complaining), I think a new type of subscription should be set up.

First of all, I think the gelat payment system should be completely removed (which I doubt will happen since they make decent money off of gelat sales on places like Zone). As nice as gelats are, they shouldn't be used to pay for a subscription... There have been times where I would say to myself, "Oh, I want to buy that with gelats, but then it would cut me short of a month of gold time, so forget it."
Separating the gold time and gelat system would eliminate this problem.

I think Graal could tremendously benefit from a recurring payment method. Allowing someone to sign up with their credit card to have it automatically billed each month. I also think people should be able to just pay a one-time fee for one or two years of gold time.

With the recurring payment method it will allow people who don't have $100 to pay for Graal and still get to play on gold servers for small amounts. It would be very impressive if Graal could charge my credit card 36.00€/8 each month, which equals to about 4.50€ a month (which is about $6.50/m in USD).

I think with the recurring payment method you could even slightly raise the prices and get more money than you could when selling gold time in bulk.
This system is very easy to set up on PayPal, so it wouldn't be hard to add to the site. If you could charge $8.50 a month or maybe even $10, you would have many subscribers, since $10 is not very much money, unless you add it all up.

With this method, not only would you gain more subscribers, but you would also make more money from it. It would be easier for your customers, and it would populate the gold servers more, allowing more people to get hooked in to Zone and buy their zone items for gelats.

Another interesting option would be a one-time charge of $250-$300 for lifetime gold.

I agree with this completely.

I'd love this.

i like the $250-$300 idea

If lifetime gold works the same excellent way as lifetime classic... like: need support? Give us your lifetime classic back.

well if lifetime classic was like $20, then gold should be atleast $30, correct?

I like the idea of a recurring payment method; I wouldn't use it myself, but I'm sure some people would. I don't think offering lifetime anything is viable anymore though.

10 dollars a month is still a lot for me considering the things I need to put my money towards each month. if I didn't have other stuff to pay off I wouldn't care.

stefan just really needs to step up and make graal better before anyone can just raise prices -.-

We plan to eventually introduce re-occuring payments for server renting in the future, but cannot guarantee yet when we get to add that.

I like how runescape is cheaper then graal.

it also has more players.

Maybe because it sucks so much?

Maybe because it's so cheap?

they have more players because its cheap, and they figure that if they keep it cheap more players will suscribe. like around a million people play it, think of how many people have suscribed. thats a lot of money is what im saying ..

Come on now, you know that doesn't make sense.

I'm sure they're aware of the fact that if they start charging more money, they will get less players, because frankly - their game isn't all that awesome.

No, not "placed like Zone".
It should just be "Zone".
All Stefan cares about right now is Zone, so he tried to make money off of only that.

Seriously, Stefan and Stephane, if you're going to do this, just take of the Gelat system. Make people upgrade and use the ingame "Zone Money".
Otherwise, please use Gelats on other servers as well.


Tig, I agree fully with you.
And also have an option for a 1-time pay, where you have to pay each month from a new subscription, instead of a recurring.
This way if someone wants just a month they don't have to cancel their recurring subscription.