Developing should be free for servers that are staff-only

[salesman]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

No, you're just asking them to give away upgrades valued at $70+. It's not going to happen, unless prices are increased everywhere else, which is something I doubt you'll enjoy.

Anyways, here's a little tid-bit: if a server costs about $110 per year, with say 6 people working on it for a year, then that would be about $410 net income per year. When asking that developers be allowed to work on servers without upgrading, you are asking that Graal sell a $410 product for $110.


Go learn.

Which is why I said jerret's suggestion about developer packages might be a better idea. There's so many things that they could do to better serve the developers who are making them money. Just a few things off the top of my head:

• Upgrade once, lifetime developing on staff-only servers
• Cheaper developer-only subcriptions for staff-only servers
• Better packages (i.e. rent a server with 10 developer slots)
• Free developing for anyone with a subcription on staff-only servers

My point is that something should be done to show some damn appreciation for the people who are putting bread on their table (since they are apparently only "scraping by"), and stop overcharging them to develop their game (without proper documentation, updated tools, etc -- hell, we're even doing that for them now, too)

I'm really not trying to come off so negative because I still enjoy developing...however, if things stay as they are now, I truly see our wimpy developer pool becoming even smaller in the future. I'm sure as hell never upgrading again unless something changes, and I'm know I'm not alone on that one.