Would you be willing to ...
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26 Oct 2014, 04:55
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...pay a 5€ monthly subscription to play W:ET and/or RtCW(or a re-work of one of the two)?
- anti-cheat, created and serviced by a legitimate IT business
- competitive platform(think ladders, seasonal leagues, onedaycups etc)
- LAN events, how many depending on the amount of activity and subscriptions
Your subscription would be used to pay for things such as hosting servers/website/events, prizepools, small rewards/'salaries' for people who put extra energy into the community(think coders, admins, designers, news writers) and other services that require financing(it's still the real world and things cost money).
ps: Although there are options to make such a project happen, this won't guarantee more people playing the game or a 'revival' of the game but ofcourse it can grow popularity of new or old players aren't put off by the current state of the game. The main purpose would be to create a more stable platform for competitive W:ET.
- anti-cheat, created and serviced by a legitimate IT business
- competitive platform(think ladders, seasonal leagues, onedaycups etc)
- LAN events, how many depending on the amount of activity and subscriptions
Your subscription would be used to pay for things such as hosting servers/website/events, prizepools, small rewards/'salaries' for people who put extra energy into the community(think coders, admins, designers, news writers) and other services that require financing(it's still the real world and things cost money).
ps: Although there are options to make such a project happen, this won't guarantee more people playing the game or a 'revival' of the game but ofcourse it can grow popularity of new or old players aren't put off by the current state of the game. The main purpose would be to create a more stable platform for competitive W:ET.
Mostly hypothetical yes, though if there is a lot of realistic support and interest there are options within my own 'power'(lack of better word atm) to attempt such a project.
Personally, I'd probably be fine with paying for the things you mentioned (as long as
Didn't check the times on your post :P but yea this isn't aimed at revival. Imagine it more as if CF would have indoor leagues with tiny prizepools. 'CFAC' created in a collaboration between a trustworthy company and CF advisors(who wont have access to actual code, but input needed ideas, think yourself, merl, timbolina or others who have experience and valued input). A platform that has everything itself and no to be reliable on 3rd parties like CG/CB/ESL/whatever(no hate towards CG, i just think that having that on CF itself would be a great thing)
Off to bed, good night.
I was mainly referring to the comments here.
I actually can't recall what reason YCN said chaplja had, but maybe it was something along the lines of him coding TZAC proof cheats or just growing tired of the project and not wanting other people to continue it without him.
Either way, it's impossible to know for sure why we suddenly lost the best AC we ever had or will have.
I've never liked games with subscriptions. If I'm going to pay for a game, I want to own that game, not pay for a few months and then lose access to it if I decide it's not worth my money. I'd like the luxury of being able to play a game or two, even when I'm losing interest in the game.
It would also stop a lot of old players from coming back, at least in the American community, and I'm sure that applies to the European community as well. Motivating someone to come back and play a few games, who's into a new game such as CS:GO is hard enough. Add in the fact that they have to pay, and I'd say it's near impossible, regardless of what extra features that subscription provides to competitive players.
I mean the connection between account + payment
so no , I wouldn't pay a penny
in order to make it work you should contact Spalsh Damage and bring up the idea for them, lately they post a lot about ET on their facebook page, but yeah I always get there and make a cheesy comment about how they abandoned the game and stuff
You play CS I think dont know if you know ESEA, think that but on a smaller scale. Sure there are plenty of other options but by offering the right service at a good quality real competitive players are willing to pay a small subscription. To get things that the game itself doesn't provide(anymore in the case of ET).
Post about it on reddit, would get way more attention I believe.
total people playing ET pro atm @ 150???
idea is good but won't happen in ET, numbers are numbers
If you want people to believe that this can work you have to deliver more than just a concept. It's like a start up applying for money from investors. Nowadays nobody will get a penny for an idea that's been pitched in a similar way and not been followed up a dozen of times. In short it's all still too blurry and people have been disappointed too many times by dreamers.
A startup doesn't start up unless there is an actual interest from a reasonable amount of people and eventhough I said this is mostly hypothetical and the discussion is aimed at trying to get people to talk if they would be willing to pay for services that the game itself doesnt offer and if yes or no, why or what they would want or expect from it.
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Bring it on Adeto
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Next would be an anticheat, atleast online prizemoney is pointless before that. What about going for ESL wire? Or "hire" (maybe for free?) a skilled killerboy-squad who knows their stuff and bans the most obv comp cheaters? Same with marketing ET and so on. If you raise so much money you can do those concurrently then go for it but yeah.
you can force him simply with boycotting the site until we go back to cf 2.0, 3.0 whatever
i doubt there are ANYONE who likes this version of CF which successfuly helped to kill ET in the first place
Once you know how many people would pay you can start thinking about some projects.
Like maza said: anticheat > website > prizepool.
I think someone of trust (like timbo) should run special 3/3 6v6 odc to gather money for future projects to save ET.
Each team should pay 30€ (5€ per players gg). Let's say we got 16 teams (which I think is possible??). 16x30=480€ 150€ for prize pool? or not?
also u can have my 20e if u can get it from #Shoutcastcollective
Tz-ac was the best chance of 'revival' ET had and there was just so much negative feedback around it. It's just not gonna work anymore.
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Slightly ironic considering how you and the guys that you play with often behave. Though in this case I would call it a combination of being immature and impulsive rather than retarded. I do however agree with you on everything
Being fully free game is smth making et better than pay2play games.