Servers & Profits

[Cubical]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Simple post is simply not relevant.

If they were actually going to pay they could just send it over Paypal to the Manager's Paypal account who will then be in charge of delegating the actual cash to the staff.

Atrius does something similar to this.

[Elk]

Wait...Stefan needs to profit of this aswell...not only the Staff

[Crono]

players were happily developing before without expecting a profit and it used to work just fine. nowadays it's harder because theres not many people to actually work with for various reasons.

Originally Posted by Elk

Wait...Stefan needs to profit of this aswell...not only the Staff

you do mean cyberjoueurs or w/e they call themselves now, right?

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Cubical

Atrius does something similar to this.

Could of sworn that kind of thing was illegal.

It'd be nice if Stefan gave a portion of the gelats earned by the server, which can be disbursed amongst the development staff then provide a Gelat -> Currency service (Excluding bonus gelats from subscriptions).

[Elk]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Could of sworn that kind of thing was illegal.

It'd be nice if Stefan gave a portion of the gelats earned by the server, which can be disbursed amongst the development staff then provide a Gelat -> Currency service.

My point...it IS illegal

[oo_jazz_oo]

The last time I read through the agreement on the graal online site, it says that trading items outside of Graal is at your discretion.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but it doesnt mention trading of graal items for real money...neither does it say that trading those items outside of graal is illegal.
But, like I said...I could be wrong. I only read through the agreement quick, and all I saw was that trading items outside of the game is on you, and Graal is not liable.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Cubical

Atrius does something similar to this.

LOL illegal!

[MrName]

Originally Posted by Elk

Wait...Stefan needs to profit of this aswell...not only the Staff

They should be allowed to do this, Stefan gets his profit. They have to pay for the server renting and their players pay for gold to play.

[Elk]

they dont have to pay for server renting once its classic...

[MrName]

Originally Posted by Elk

they dont have to pay for server renting once its classic...

Still they get enough from the gold i guess.

[fowlplay4]

I really doubt there's any kind of use with the PayPal API on Atrius other than a trust system (you donate, we award you manually), you're pretty much setting yourself up to get scammed (and you're already getting ripped off). You might as well just go on GK and organize trades over AIM.

[racycle]

What if theres a system to "donate" for a item and the item is transfered to the player automaticly. part of the donation goes to graal other half goes to the server weather it be to split the servers share to stay online and a 3rd go to the dev team or throw it all at the dev team

the server gets money to distribute how ever they see fit

unimax is getting money from the server being up and from players

the player gets his item

only downfall is players and devs have to pay for the gold =/ miss those f2p days much?

[Bell]

what the...

[Seeya]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

You might as well just go on GK and organize trades over AIM.

I'm not going to say i've ever "USD"'d anything on Graal Kingdoms, but there is a HUGE market for USD on there. Huge. About two weeks ago, there was a 750$ trade. Back in the day these happened weekly.

Now think of how a BIG portion of this could go to Stefan. Anyone who's ever logged into GK can tell how hard it is to level, so steal Zodiac's idea, make Experience potions. It'd make players money ingame for there gelats, it'd increase trade, leveling, everything. Then release, say, spellset's ect, mental scrolls, everything.

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Seeya

so steal Zodiac's idea, make Experience potions.

It's not really stealing since it's such a generic idea but to make leveling bearable on GK the potions would be crucial considering how bad the grind is.