Actually if you consider batch processing it is not really a "different
feature" : people that do not pay can do exactly the same things as people
that do, they just have to point and click a 100 times instead of one...

Josselin

2010/6/29 Xavier Antoviaque <[email protected]>

> 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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