[Tyhm]

and most importantly, Graal will make more money from PWs bringing in new players than it'll lose from the developers not having to go Gold, and from the 10% going to the PW Owners, and even from the occasional player who chooses to keep a huge list of 28-character passwords rather than upgrade...because instead of Unixmad and Stefan being the only ones who care if the servers turn a profit, suddenly every serverop cares really a lot.

I don't even get why developers need Gold or Upgrade in the first place...so what if their account resets every time they log off? It gives them perspective.

As to letting developers either assign anonymous Staff accounts or a list of accounts to be treated as staff on their server, I say the latter. If Hypothetica has 90 staff entries, that's their own dumb fault, and their own security breach. If Hypothetica wants to do something with serverstrings to emulate saving accounts without passwords, that's money out of Billy's pocket too...and it'll suck for him in a year, when Graal decides to charge him for another year of hosting, since he's just freeloading as it stands.

Ain't perfect, but it beats what we're doing now.