On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 12:34 +0200, Josselin Perrus wrote:
> 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... 

Of course - I'm not saying that we can't get people to pay for the
service we offer (ie the fact that we run the game server). Just that
it's different to limit features we offer to non-paying subscribers and
making people pay for things like buying in-game money.

But, actually, now that I think more about it, you may be right. The
difference is not so fundamental - if you can buy features with in-game
money, and that you can either earn this money through the gameplay or
buy it to get it faster, the difference becomes more grey.

We'll just have to be careful about not limiting a too large portion of
the game features then - otherwise it will give a big incentive for a
portion of the community to create its own server, where you don't have
this limitation.

Xavier.

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