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GL_Support wrote:
And there, you see, is part of my point. To be able to list my guild as supporting multiple games, I need to create more than one free site and link it to my main site via the alliance feature. I don't want to do that. I want to have one site that is listed as supporting multiple games.
Having more than one site just to list more than one game that my guild supports is a bit pointless, because no one will use the other site. I do not like creating sites that will not get used. Secondary guild sites, at least in my guild, won't get used by anyone.
Now, though, I see you've made it possible to have one site list multiple supported games as opposed to creating multiple free sites that would only be a waste of space. The problem, however, is no one can access it only they get a subscription.
Like I said, I know it's cheap, but with the economy the way it is now, people have to pay for their needs first and most of those people don't have the money to do even that. The best option here, in my opinion, is to allow ad-supported sites LIMITED functionality on the multi-game function (example, allow up to five listed supported games for ad free sites, unlimited for subscribers). That way, everyone is happy. It isn't the best solution, I know that, but it is a compromise.
I understand that you feel this is better off being available only to subscribers. I can only hope, along with others that share my opinion in the matter whoever they are, that one day this will be made available to ad-supported sites, at least in limited functionality. Anyway that's all I needed to say (and yes, I know the reply will be we'll look into it and then nothing will happen, or I won't hear anything for months or years, that's been my experience with any company).
Have a good day.
Mastrada wrote:
I can't say that we will never offer the functionality to Ad-Supported sites. However, we feel that this particular functionality has great value and should therefore be a premium feature. In addition, the Ad-Free sites *do* support multiple game functionality. They just don't support multiple imports, and the future multi-application functionality, etc. It's not an absolute necessity, you can create 100 free sites and get similar functionality with creative interlinking.
Also, our product is very reasonably priced. I don't know your situation and won't try to tell you that you can spend $6.00 a month, but part of our reasoning was that if you have a guild with enough people to make the multi-game functionality truly useful then $6.00 can probably be found amongst your members.
That being said, as we extend the functionality further into multi-apps, multi-recruiting, game specific styling in sections, etc. we will certainly evaluate turning the core rostering functionality into ad-supported functionality.
We will of course look at usage patterns and if it makes sense to expand the availability then we will.
-Stephen
I have a question. Will the multi-game function at some point be made available, at least with limited functionality, to those guilds who cannot afford to pay a subscription? The reason I ask is because I myself have a guild that supports more than one game (much like 99 percent of the guilds out there, from my understanding), and I know for a fact that mine is not the only guild on guild-launch that can't afford a subscription but would like to have multi-game functionality. I don't know who they are, I just know they are out there. I'm asking this for all concerned, whoever they may be, myself included. I'm pretty sure I already know the answer myself, but I just wanted to be sure I had an official response before submitting myself to speculation.
I can't say that we will never offer the functionality to Ad-Supported sites. However, we feel that this particular functionality has great value and should therefore be a premium feature. In addition, the Ad-Free sites *do* support multiple game functionality. They just don't support multiple imports, and the future multi-application functionality, etc. It's not an absolute necessity, you can create 100 free sites and get similar functionality with creative interlinking.
Also, our product is very reasonably priced. I don't know your situation and won't try to tell you that you can spend $6.00 a month, but part of our reasoning was that if you have a guild with enough people to make the multi-game functionality truly useful then $6.00 can probably be found amongst your members.
That being said, as we extend the functionality further into multi-apps, multi-recruiting, game specific styling in sections, etc. we will certainly evaluate turning the core rostering functionality into ad-supported functionality.
We will of course look at usage patterns and if it makes sense to expand the availability then we will.
-Stephen
And there, you see, is part of my point. To be able to list my guild as supporting multiple games, I need to create more than one free site and link it to my main site via the alliance feature. I don't want to do that. I want to have one site that is listed as supporting multiple games.
Having more than one site just to list more than one game that my guild supports is a bit pointless, because no one will use the other site. I do not like creating sites that will not get used. Secondary guild sites, at least in my guild, won't get used by anyone.
Now, though, I see you've made it possible to have one site list multiple supported games as opposed to creating multiple free sites that would only be a waste of space. The problem, however, is no one can access it only they get a subscription.
Like I said, I know it's cheap, but with the economy the way it is now, people have to pay for their needs first and most of those people don't have the money to do even that. The best option here, in my opinion, is to allow ad-supported sites LIMITED functionality on the multi-game function (example, allow up to five listed supported games for ad free sites, unlimited for subscribers). That way, everyone is happy. It isn't the best solution, I know that, but it is a compromise.
I understand that you feel this is better off being available only to subscribers. I can only hope, along with others that share my opinion in the matter whoever they are, that one day this will be made available to ad-supported sites, at least in limited functionality. Anyway that's all I needed to say (and yes, I know the reply will be we'll look into it and then nothing will happen, or I won't hear anything for months or years, that's been my experience with any company).
Have a good day.