I don't really see the contradiction between free (as in freedom not as in beer) software and paying for some features. The code can be open and downloadable, nonetheless YOU are hosting the game. Wordpress is not blamed for offering paying hosting plans. Neither are companies that offer services with Drupal, etc... Any player has the ability to download the code and run it on his own servers. And in his own instance of the game he might offer the very same features for free...
Farmville embeds features with virtual items (tractors and such). Many F2P that involve managing some resources offer this kind of premium accounts. I can't remember specific names but a quick search led me to this list : http://www.gameogre.com/freemmorpgs.htm <http://www.gameogre.com/freemmorpgs.htm>Josselin 2010/6/29 Xavier Antoviaque <[email protected]> > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 12:15 +0200, Josselin Perrus wrote: > > I don't know if this monetization oppurtinity has been discussed, but > > you can offer premium accounts (paid with real or in-world money) that > > allow batch processing like many casual/social games. The ergonomy of > > in-game actions should be kept simple, but the repetition of these > > simple actions could become tedious when a player starts having a big > > inventory/territory. And some would certainly agree to pay for being > > able to do batch processing of these tasks or to make some automatic, > > etc... > > It's an interesting idea! The only issue I see with this is the fact > that HackIt is free software - if we start reserving features for the > paying users, we could be accused (with reason) of doing shareware more > than free software... > > That's why we try to find some monetization principles that are more > linked to the data than the code - things like object ownership, cuts on > money exchanges, etc. > > Have you seen good examples of those? > > Xavier. > > _______________________________________________ > Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] > > Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ > List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ > Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ > Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ > IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis >
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