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Buying Game Time

Nov 09, 2004 Orange link
Hi, great fun this game, congrats to the Devs.

Can I suggest another Game Time Purchasing model, the buying of hours in the game. I see that you can do this with the Beta testers who have all got 8 hour in-game time, so can you extend this to purchase of hours. I suggest this as I am not always available to play at certain times of the month, and begrudge paying for time in a game that I don't get to see.

Could this be done in any way, shape or form??

Cheers
Orange
Nov 09, 2004 Celebrim link
There is a minimum cost in every economic transaction. My guess is that there just wouldn't be alot of profit in selling hours. A month is only $9.99. The minimum ammount they could probably charge wouldn't be much lower than that.
Nov 09, 2004 AtomicNewt link
I would just like to see the Pay-By-Cash option working SOON!!!!

I REALLY want to play the game, and that's my only payment option. When is this going to be implemented?

Also.. The currency is NEVER mentioned ANYWHERE... I know it's $9.99 per month, but for your international customers (like me, Canadian), is it going to be charged in USD??? That should be stated on the Site.
Nov 09, 2004 incarnate link
We're getting PayByCash online as quickly as we can. We've worked on a bunch of integration stuff with them today, and are currently testing the process. I will post that prices are in USD.
Nov 11, 2004 Spellcast link
Celebrim, I suppose they could charge 9.99 for say, 25 hours of gameplay time. That way if you only play 1 hour a night, 3 nights a week your 10 bucks gets you 2 months of play.
Setting up a recurring transaction would be harder, but leaving a warning in place when you are down to 30 minutes lets the player decide if he/she wants to go get more gametime or not.

Players that play compulsively (like me) still get a better deal by buying it on a per/month basis.