Payment Plans

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by salesman

about $10,000 going off of the 2400 gelat pack...unless I failed at math

More so I'd expect my portion at minimum to be around what he estimated.

[salesman]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

More so I'd expect my portion at minimum to be around what he estimated.

Ah, I see what he was saying now .

Those numbers are assuming that people bought the exact number of gelats that they spent on the shop. That probably isn't the case, I'd imagine.

[Bubble13]

I don't really get the whole idea of a cash shop. Can someone please explain?

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by Bubble13

I don't really get the whole idea of a cash shop. Can someone please explain?

The idea is that the game will become free for everybody to play but servers will sell items that seem optional, and are specific to that server, for a small fee.
Ideally the items will be consumable or provide a bonus for a short while so that they can be sold to the same customers again and again and again.

Like all those free korean mmos.

[Bubble13]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

The idea is that the game will become free for everybody to play but servers will sell items that seem optional, and are specific to that server, for a small fee.
Ideally the items will be consumable or provide a bonus for a short while so that they can be sold to the same customers again and again and again.

Like all those free korean mmos.

Hmm. Sounds too much like Classic iPhone.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by Bubble13

Hmm. Sounds too much like Classic iPhone.

It's a system that would benefit Graal a lot, because quite frankly, none of the content is worth paying money for just to be able to play it properly. It would also make people be able to develop on UC servers without having to upgrade for it.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

It's a system that would benefit Graal a lot, because quite frankly, none of the content is worth paying money for just to be able to play it properly. It would also make people be able to develop on UC servers without having to upgrade for it.

Being staff on UC playerworlds should have been free all along. The rental and bandwidth of those servers are already paid for by the playerworld owners.
Classic servers don't have owners paying for them so it makes sense for the players to cover that cost.
Tl;dr Paying to develop is just purely greedy double dipping.

Also I still can't see micro transactions working if we still need to buy gelats first. Paying $30 for a bunch of gelats is NOT a micro transaction.
The idea of micro payments is that paying $2 fifteen times seems like a lower cost than paying $30 all at once, and gelats remove a lot of the ease of what should be a very quick and very simple payment.

[scooter123]

Originally Posted by Bubble13

Hmm. Sounds too much like Classic iPhone.

Classic iPhone is a small portion of Graal, you make it seem like its not even part of the whole picture which is Graal. I like the idea

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by scooter123

Classic iPhone is a small portion of Graal, you make it seem like its not even part of the whole picture which is Graal. I like the idea

Well actually.. PC is the small portion now.