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Originally Posted by Stephen
The banks of America have made a lot of mistakes, they're cruel and ruthless. But they always had one thing right...
Money is a great incentive. Better than a happy feeling and lasts a lot longer too.
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Yet for the last... nearly 10 years people have been paying them to make stuff for them. I'm not saying this is good, but to say that suddenly developers need to start being paid is stupid. Maybe for Gold servers, maybe, but the percentage they'd get after being distributed through staff would be minimal, at best. I can't say I'd be motivated by money.
However like I said, some people actually enjoy making stuff, but with a small ungrateful playerbase of the same players for the last 10 years it gets dull. For a long time developers of Graal were motivated by a playerbase that simply appreciated their work and commitment to their servers. To see players happy to get something was incentive enough.
Also, thinking that Stefan is going to suddenly remove the need for players to pay, to doing a 180 and PAYING the developers is unrealistic. BUT THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT. Subscriptions sucking is what is important. If Stefan wants to gather a team of hand-picked developers to pay them to make a worthwhile server, then fine, whatever. That'd be great. But it should not delay this suggestion because subscriptions need to go
now.