Say your thoughts to zups idea about paying for servers so the people who don't pay get lower quality and the people who do git higher quality

Ok.blue read his.post again micosoft.is closing their free severs. If we dont pay the only flying that we will.be doing is buzzing around with our arms out. Yelling bang bang. Boom i got a hanger. Five bucks for live is a.drop.in the bucket. Go mow a lawn hell i do it on the side and make about 100 bucks.and.i only mow three lawns. As for a buck a month. I have enough pennies to play for years. So dont blow this all out of proportion. If you love the game find a away to help.zup help us. The only other alternative is he closes the game down for good. Make your choice

microsoft...the company with a heart. xbox live is $60 a year....

You should all know this day would come. This game we are all so addicted to comes at a price, and eventually that ould get passed on to the user. I have absolutely no problem with this, as do many many others.
Those that are willing will continue on, those that arent, well, sorry...

I think it should be a monthly subsciption, 1 or 2 bucks a month won't kill anyone except the trolls.

its cheaper that crack

All he has to do is actually come out with squad wars, would have no problem getting people to play. Just paying for a product I already bought is like Ford saying, we know you already bought your mustang, but we need to charge you more because are costs increased after you bought it. People only pay for added value. Like upgrading my mustang from 305 hp to say 365 hp. That I would pay for.

Ha ha..darraxx you post really made me laugh..like all things in life we prioritize what's important to us but this is a no brainer..pay to fly..or no time in the sky...love df..

Presumably you still get your Mustang serviced and put gas in it occasionally?

Yep, refer to my post under zups thread. Went into some more helpful details on monetizing the game. Saw this one first didn't realize there was another thread. Everyone should post under the other thread.

Still not had the last long overdue update via Amazon. So don't fancy shelling out any more cash until I get the same as everyone else.

You guys must thing that you live in a country whit a good PIB. There is so many players who don't live in country's that's one dollar it's easey to pay it

But for me it's ok, I must say that I just want a good services client, that's all

So true Ziza, what about those less fortunate that can bearly pay for credit on their cell, that is in other countries, Count on me helping also, what if one wants to sponsor another pilot, maybe having a server just for wars and pay that se partly that way no third parties ruling the event we can pay the $5 per squad when we go to war wich means more wars more revenue. So many ideas...

EMERGENCY FUND RAISING HAS BEGUN!

'PRICELESS'!!!!!!!!, lol

Paul Mantz, Jr. wrote:

EMERGENCY FUND RAISING HAS BEGUN!

Good one,sir Paul.

Why would anyone go to the other thread when this one is so much fun, holy Hanna you guys have me laughing..

OK, so what's the bottom line.. We're all addicted to the game, which means 1) we're all going to stick around unless the fee becomes usurious. 2) simple market revue, and past history shows that's not likely to happen.

Echoboom, Zuperman and anyone even remotely connected to the game deserve far more than a lousy five bucks for lifetime membership.. Really do any of you have access to anything half as rewarding for your five bucks.. So if the announcement is testing the water, as I suspect it is, then this is a head smacking duhhh moment..

lol padre v I agree I don't work cause of kids ...but .....like my buddy rabit an u said ill mow a lawninthe winter time rake leaves whatever ill be here if at all possible !!!!!!!!!!!

I already padi for a lfietime subscription once, but I would be willing to pay for it again if I saw benefit, and less risk. I paid half of what DF cost for a competing game, made by a reknowned company that has 24/7 support that actually supports the game, has three times the WW1 planes, better graphics, maps, but does not have the chat or forum community. That community is worth something, but this game is based on an exsting engine, has no reliable suqad wars or invite friend or friends to play option, lags, crashes, has limited graphics and no realism for aircraft. If any of that got better, I would pony up for it, but there is risk, as we have seen, that this one man shop stops supporting this game, no matter how much cash it takes. I have seen a lot of boards vanish due to the contribution margin problem, new cost drives new entrants down, fewer entrants equals less community content, soon only the die hards are left, and the fixed cost per die hard becomes too great to support.

At one point when I first came over from the free server I was ranked 4,000 or so, so at least that many must have come over from the free server and paid, for a game that has run about three years by the sound of it. I'm not up on app costs for games, so I asked a friend who is, and he stated that for just under $1,000 a month you get the latest greatest including sql (squirrel?) and webhosting and a message board and blah blah blah. That's 200 new users a month to support. Even if the 4,000 or so active users put in another $5 one time, the $20,000 is burned up in a year and a half. It doesn't sound sustainable to get a BETTER online playing experience. Would I pay the $5 again for the same experience? Probably, but how many other would?

I'd pay a small monthly fee, or a one time fee, like every one else, I'm addicted ...