Subscription fee?

Some  Cant do that .   My friend from another  country  cant  do even that . Not every one lives in USA . Kids playing cant .  Parents  wont.   Not a good Idea 

I don't think this will fly. Not with the players nor with the Devs. However, I want to add that I would be willing to pay such a nominal fee.

On the other hand, if it had been so from the beginning, I would probably had tried Illyriad and maybe even started paying when the fee kicked in (after a few months, as Rill suggested) but I doubt I would still be here with my current accounts. I probably would have abandoned sometime in the middle of 2012 due to the boredom which set in back then and started over a little while later because I missed my friends.

Anyway, it's an interesting thought but I think Prestige is the best way to fund Illyriad.

Lets be realistic about this for a moment.

Right now I can log into my steam account and pull down free to play games and have over 100 titles to pick from.
Then there are kabam and big fish with hundreds if not thousands of games for younger players that are free to play.
Syfy games has free to play games.
Kongergate has free to play games.
I lost track of all the German browser sites that have free to play games.

I understand that the developers made this game and they need to pay for the servers and staff. Nothing is free in life.

I also understand that once you add a subscription charge no matter how big or small you will lose a huge chunk of players simply because there is so much out there that is free to play. Also there are many who can not do it IE children and students and people without credit cards.

I used up all of my prestige already the first few hours of playing because all the kind players sent me stuff and told me to keep upgrading my storehouse to hold it all and use prestige.
Almost all of them told me that there was not much else to use prestige on. So the one extra prestige a day does not influence me either way at this time.

When I played Lords of Ultima for 7 years I bought all 4 of the ministers for about $20 a month so that I could automate my 100 city empire. There was real value to me and anyone who was serious and had more then 4 cities bought them.

I don't know enough about the game yet for me to decide what I need to buy with prestige yet. When I do I will buy what I can afford.

As soon as you add a cash shop where you can buy something that a free to play player can not get then it becomes pay to win and players will leave as well.

I do know that a monthly subscription is not the way to go and not a good idea.

I think that imposing a subscription model for a F2P browser game is an oxymoronic gesture that will kill the game in short order, not least by scaring away new players before they even sign up.

As i said on one other topic about same isuse.

We Croats say:

Dog does not bark because of the village, the dog barks for its own sake.
So we here, as someone said, a drum in the blank.

Developers hold the scissors, and tailoring the game to suit them (the game must make a profit).
We are all in crapitalism.

In my humble opinion a very bad they sewed and game bursting at the seams

I will continue to support the game of my modest abilities, but as I am personally concerned, never, literally never will "keep one's account.

Twice I left the game, and believe me, nothing hurts. The first time I left the game with seven cities across 60 k pop and ranking among the top 400, I did not even know that there is the possibility of "active sitting". Another time, I was leave just my "main" account to sitter, and I know for sure that it is not used in a way that is now used these accounts. An alternative account I simply left to the air.

These kinds of accounts are becoming a key prevail in all aspects of the game, regardless of the restrictions set for these accounts.

And in the end, everything remains the owners of the game.

Free to play, and maybe, fair play.

Sincerely


Ficho