discussion Credit System for purchasing Members+

[Irruga]

Just a tease to make you want it more and work harder... or a mistake by the admins (sshhh, admins don't make mistakes).

The new system has it's drawbacks (what system doesn't), however, I think it may have found more of a balance than just a one-time effort to gain access. Making users constantly engage and be active on the forums has benefits for the admins and owners as well. One of those would be activity level and active users for selling ads/banners on the site. Nobody is going to advertise/sponsor a website that has 30k members, and only 2k of them have more than a few hours of time on the site in their 2+ years of membership. Forum stats have gone way up in the past week, user time online, posts created, reactions to posts, etc.. All of these stats going up, and staying up, makes this a much more viable resource to sell ads/banners. Then the website could support itself, and not rely on donations/selling access.

This is step one towards this place being self-sustaining. The direction chosen from here, depends somewhat on us. Those of us that want access without engagement can buy it, generating money for the site, making it less likely we'll see ads/banners. Relying on and reminding everyone about donations every month is a chore, and not a stable, guaranteed, way to keep a website online. I can see a path towards, and fully support most methods of, making this place self-sustaining. If we want this place to be here next year, we need to look beyond our immediate wants.

Sorry for the rant. It is not aimed at anyone, just a few thoughts.

TL/DR: Active users help this place continue existing. Don't whine about maintaining/improving something you enjoy using.

If I would have known that i would have kept posting yesterday

 

[-Wyrm-]

The one from the shop (and the remnant one from the previous system) is permanent...

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...which may may change with the direction of the wind tomorrow. Whatever. The tiny, tiny, little social bit of my brain, that I didn't manage to drown with alcohol/chemicals in my youth, was hoping it would be a monthly/bi-monthly renewal thing. Just to make all the social isolates squirm and suffer along with me.

 

[Tigon_3rd]

As a long time lurker I don't mind this system, it just has to have ways for people to at least slowly gain coins over time, like awarding coins when obtaining forum trophies and make some trophies obtainable multiple times, like the 8 hour spent on the site, and like grant a trophy for your accounts "birthday" that gives a fairly large chunk of coins, then at least give some of these trophies retroactively, which would give a considerable amount of coins to lurkers that have been around for a while, plus this system would encourage them to try to post once in a while.

 

[BobD4271]

As a long time lurker I don't mind this system, it just has to have ways for people to at least slowly gain coins over time, like awarding coins when obtaining forum trophies and make some trophies obtainable multiple times, like the 8 hour spent on the site, and like grant a trophy for your accounts "birthday" that gives a fairly large chunk of coins, then at least give some of these trophies retroactively, which would give a considerable amount of coins to lurkers that have been around for a while, plus this system would encourage them to try to post once in a while.

Yeah, it feels pretty shitty to have been working toward the other goal and have it basically be reset and start from zero. Even if its just like 10 points for each trophy would be nice.

 

[ErzuzB]

As a long time lurker I don't mind this system, it just has to have ways for people to at least slowly gain coins over time, like awarding coins when obtaining forum trophies and make some trophies obtainable multiple times, like the 8 hour spent on the site, and like grant a trophy for your accounts "birthday" that gives a fairly large chunk of coins, then at least give some of these trophies retroactively, which would give a considerable amount of coins to lurkers that have been around for a while, plus this system would encourage them to try to post once in a while.

What could help, but I don't know if it's even doable, would be if users who have 1 or 2 year old accounts can buy a discount in the store (for free) for the members+ rank, so it's maybe 30%-50% cheaper.

 

[Content Consumer]

it wont change this is 100% permanent now

How come I can only see 1 entry in game+?
I could see them all yesterday.
Is there something I'm missing/not doing correctly?

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[Fauxaltruism]

constantly changing requirements seems like a bad idea LOL

 

[thatoneuser]

How come I can only see 1 entry in game+?
I could see them all yesterday.
Is there something I'm missing/not doing correctly?

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Because you don't have the M+ rank yet. It's working fine for me. Try to get a few more comments going (with some reactions) and you can buy it with your LC.

 

[ErzuzB]

How come I can only see 1 entry in game+?
I could see them all yesterday.
Is there something I'm missing/not doing correctly?

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Because the short free games+ access from yesterday is gone again. You need to buy member+ with the credit system.

 

[r_455h2]

There isn't much that interests me enough to comment on that isn't on games+. Seems oddly backwards to me but it is what it is.

 

[thatoneuser]

There isn't much that interests me enough to comment on that isn't on games+. Seems oddly backwards to me but it is what it is.

If that's the only content you truly play then I suppose. There are still some threads you could scroll through and leave a comment regarding finding games etc. Maybe you come across something you've not played yet.

 

[dudeplayer]

in the shop, what's the differences between member+ and vip? other than vip being more expensive

 

[thatoneuser]

in the shop, what's the differences between member+ and vip? other than vip being more expensive

VIP is a whole different thing (not entirely sure what it really involves outside of some shiny forums things like flashy names etc.) and m+ is just solely there to gate the other content. So for 99.99% M+ is all you need.

 

[R51093]

...which may may change with the direction of the wind tomorrow. Whatever. The tiny, tiny, little social bit of my brain, that I didn't manage to drown with alcohol/chemicals in my youth, was hoping it would be a monthly/bi-monthly renewal thing. Just to make all the social isolates squirm and suffer along with me.

thats jsut evil XD

in the shop, what's the differences between member+ and vip? other than vip being more expensive

i would like to know as well like i wana buy it because well its VIP....

VIP is a whole different thing (not entirely sure what it really involves outside of some shiny forums things like flashy names etc.) and m+ is just solely there to gate the other content. So for 99.99% M+ is all you need.

but if all you get is a flashy banner and or name then I'll just wait till i slowly accumulate the amount insted of buying it

 

[thatoneuser]

thats jsut evil XD

i would like to know as well like i wana buy it because well its VIP....

but if all you get is a flashy banner and or name then I'll just wait till i slowly accumulate the amount insted of buying it

VIP was here before the member+ rank but I don't think there is any real VIP content on the website as of now. So probably a smart idea! Maybe we'll get to do more with points and that way the VIP will be more accesible for us and in return there will be some content.

 

[papanya]

The number of accumulated credits can only be seen on the side of your post, right?

 

[thatoneuser]

The number of accumulated credits can only be seen on the side of your post, right?

No, they are on your own profile or if you hover over your own name they also show up. Also if you click on shop you can see what you have in your wallet (but not what you got in the bank currently, unless I'm blind).

 

[CaMaReVa29]

An innovative way to be a member of the page without affecting people's finances, an intelligent proposal

 

[thatoneuser]

I've taken a new approach to this whole fiasco.

Since our actions before the change aren't worth anything and LC suddenly cares about engagement so much, how about this:

Every day the new system is in place the screwed over users delete a post, review, or reaction?


I'll go first with the first post of mine that I can still see.

Hilariously enough, I can't see any of the posts I made in the restricted section, otherwise I would have chosen to delete my very first post. Anyways, that was a helpful comment explaining how a certain game has some translation issues and also acted a little review to introduce potential new players to the game. Since, LC only gives a shit about newer stuff, I'm sure you all won't miss it.

They did hand out some M+ to people who kind of fell in between the old rules but it seems some may have been overlooked. Honestly if you've been actually active for a long time they may not have an issue giving you m+. Think this measure is mainly for the future not to punish current users. Maybe try Discord or a ticket, otherwise I guess you gotta haul your butt over to the booming threads and score some coin there. Some coins were also taken away from people over night so I think they are still looking to see how and what.

 

[valtboy]

So for those who are here since 2022 for downloading, and not for commenting or chatting, you still have to grind from scratch. Sounds not fun