Membership - How should it expire?

[Weiyao]

Just an idea:

 

 

 

Instead of the 700+ hours you get from a 30 day membership, make it so that for this method, you get significantly less such as 100 or 150. Or more etc... Then adjust the price so the month by month is cheaper. This could make it an alternative to month by month for people who may want it but the month by month is still better.

[Kilo]

So those people not on vacation have less time to play? The reverse of what your suggesting is going to make some people pay more money. Unless your doing it on a day to day payment plan. Seems expensive :D

[Weiyao]

Sorry if I didn't make it clear, but I meant only the people who bought the hour option had 100 or so hours. :oops:

 

 

 

So it's still more appealing to buy month by month but buying hours is avaliable for people who may want an alternative.

 

Unless you nolifed all month, you normally play around 100 or so hours anyway so maybe reduce that even more.

[mikeg0477]

Monthly membership with RS is pretty much the same as monthly cable, ISP, phone, etc. Right now I'm not watching tv, but my cable bill stays the same. Later on I'll log off the internet, but the amount i pay for my ISP is the same. I think having a set price for 30 days of RS(or any game for that matter) is easiest for everyone.

[brainymidget]

I personally think they should keep it how it is, it makes everything simple.

 

 

 

But... if they were to change it, I would say the best idea would be what someone said on the first page, about just charging you for if you log in a day. Now I'm not saying this exact idea, it should be changed a little bit. If it was this idea, people could go away for a year, and still have their member credit, and be making money off Miscellania or other things, because I don't think they should make it so that if you don't play, those things don't do anything.

 

 

 

So here's my personal idea:

 

Make it so that if you didn't play for that day, all the daily things and all that still go normally, like Miscellania and Tears of Guthix. If you don't play, you lose 1/3 or 1/2 a day of membership credit, and if you do play, you lose a full day of membership credit. On the login screen, they could set it to you have 11 days of membership credit left and just make the fraction invisible, or they could just make it show as 11 2/3 days left.

[Dire_Wolf]

Here's my idea:

 

If you log in you loose credit for that day, if you don't you will keep it. And when you don't log in the activities ingame will not progress.

[JIM]

I think that the billing is more than adequate as it is, especially when compared to some other MMORPGs I've played.

 

 

 

I would like to see a 'pay for one month only' option though.

[RSBDavid]

You could always take plastic and other recyclables to places and swap for cash. I took 1 months of mountain dew cans to the center near me and got 20 bucks back lol.

 

 

 

The way it expires is fine now.

[compfreak847]

There's plenty of days where I log in for 5-10 minutes just to update GE, or 20-30 minutes to do all 1 time events. Per day isn't a good idea.

 

 

 

Hourly charges simply do not work. It becomes so much easier if you look at it and say 'I could grind an hour now, have no fun, and lose 20 cents' vs not losing anything. Pay Per Use never works well for amenities, it just makes you play less and less.

 

 

 

Really, the way we have it now works great. I'm entirely in support of a doubling or tripling of the fees - look at wow, they don't have a user problem, and I honestly think RS gameplay is superior. Even if they lost a big chunk of their subscribers, they would be receiving more money for better updates, pulling in far more new members\cash in the long run.

 

 

 

Also, they should cut a massive amount of their customer support section. It's literally half the company right now - we could be getting twice as many updates if people squabbling over reports were just booted.

[matrix2613]

Heres an idea-

 

-You get 30 days minimum membership, or 60 days maximum

 

-If you play for more then say, 300 hours a month, then your membership would end at the minimum of 30 days, while still enjoying the exact same ammount of features foir the same price.

 

-If you have not gotten the maximum hours yet, your membership will continue until you reach 300 hours, or at the end of 60 days.

 

 

 

With the method outlined above, hardcore players will still get the same ammount of bang for their buck, but the more casual or relaxed players would get up to an extra month. It would essentially half the price of a yearly membership for casual players, which would encourage more F2Pers to buy a membership.

[compfreak847]

 

With the method outlined above, hardcore players will still get the same ammount of bang for their buck, but the more casual or relaxed players would get up to an extra month. It would essentially half the price of a yearly membership for casual players, which would encourage more F2Pers to buy a membership.

 

Ten hours a day? Even Zezima played under 8. That will HALVE their subscription revenue, and possibly put the company under. Terrible idea.

[matrix2613]

300 was just a nice round number....... it could be 100 too.....

[3hitm4g3u]

Atleast this thread has shown me what it would take for me to permanently quit.

 

 

 

I would cancel my membership forever the day they implemented pay as you play.

[la la la]

No... then I would feel like I was wasting money every time I logged in and wasn't doing anything useful. That's a horrible idea.

[compfreak847]

 

300 was just a nice round number....... it could be 100 too.....

 

So either they make whoever plays more then 100 hours pay a MASSIVE fee, or give essentially no discount for lower hours.

 

 

 

People are having a hard time grasping that all of these methods have to result in them getting at least as much money overall. These are restructurings, NOT reductions in member fees. In fact, fees should be raised substantially for the good of the game - quality and frequency of updates would rise exponentially with a rise in fees.

[llcoolguy972]

Why fix something that is not broken? Jagex gets plenty of income, we get cheap prices, why change that?

 

This. Membership is so cheap it's ridiculous and if you can't stand to lose the $.50 a day, then maybe you can't afford to be a member. Hourly/daily subscription rates would just over complicate something that's functioning perfectly as it is.

 

 

 

Edit: I also agree with compfreak that fees could be raised. A $5 or $10 increase would be a huge increase in revenue and could possibly weed out some of the immature players and giving everyone a better gaming experience.

[Dire_Wolf]

Why fix something that is not broken? Jagex gets plenty of income, we get cheap prices, why change that?

 

This. Membership is so cheap it's ridiculous and if you can't stand to lose the $.50 a day, then maybe you can't afford to be a member. Hourly/daily subscription rates would just over complicate something that's functioning perfectly as it is.

 

 

 

Edit: I also agree with compfreak that fees could be raised. A $5 or $10 increase would be a huge increase in revenue and could possibly weed out some of the immature players and giving everyone a better gaming experience.

 

 

 

How would raising fees help?

[rangeor]

Why fix something that is not broken? Jagex gets plenty of income, we get cheap prices, why change that?

 

This. Membership is so cheap it's ridiculous and if you can't stand to lose the $.50 a day, then maybe you can't afford to be a member. Hourly/daily subscription rates would just over complicate something that's functioning perfectly as it is.

 

 

 

Edit: I also agree with compfreak that fees could be raised. A $5 or $10 increase would be a huge increase in revenue and could possibly weed out some of the immature players and giving everyone a better gaming experience.

 

 

 

How would raising fees help?

[Ned]

This is how newspaper and magazine companies operate. It's just a common business tactic, they know that many subscribers may not be active all the time, but that is sort of the point. :|

 

 

 

Golf Clubs and resorts also use this method, obviously you won't be playing golf 24/7, but they will still charge you no matter what, because they can.

[Dire_Wolf]

Why fix something that is not broken? Jagex gets plenty of income, we get cheap prices, why change that?

 

This. Membership is so cheap it's ridiculous and if you can't stand to lose the $.50 a day, then maybe you can't afford to be a member. Hourly/daily subscription rates would just over complicate something that's functioning perfectly as it is.

 

 

 

Edit: I also agree with compfreak that fees could be raised. A $5 or $10 increase would be a huge increase in revenue and could possibly weed out some of the immature players and giving everyone a better gaming experience.

 

 

 

How would raising fees help?

 

I meant, why would it weed out the immature players?

[compfreak847]

 

I meant, why would it weed out the immature players?

 

Younger your are, less likely you can pay.

 

 

 

Anyway, I view it as a good idea for another reason: more money for jagex = exponentially more updates for us. There's so many people devoted to CS compared to updates that an increase in money and decrease in subscriber base would give them a huge jump in revenue for updates\bug testing.

[Racheya]

 

I meant, why would it weed out the immature players?

 

Younger your are, less likely you can pay.

 

 

 

Anyway, I view it as a good idea for another reason: more money for jagex = exponentially more updates for us. There's so many people devoted to CS compared to updates that an increase in money and decrease in subscriber base would give them a huge jump in revenue for updates\bug testing.

 

Or maybe it would just weed out all us poorer players?

 

 

 

I'm sure middle class folks would like that though.

[SwreeTak]

It's good at it is, I think. Your suggestion (Because it is a suggestion, even though you say it is not) is quite good, but I highly doubt that Jagex would put it into the game since they already have a very well working system.

[Dire_Wolf]

It's good at it is, I think. Your suggestion (Because it is a suggestion, even though you say it is not) is quite good, but I highly doubt that Jagex would put it into the game since they already have a very well working system.

 

 

 

It is not a suggestion.

[TheXxzlx2]

Hmmm... I have actually thought about it :) .

 

 

 

I agree that there should be different method , but I disagree with your timer idea.

 

 

 

I would rather like for a day to count down only if you were actually logged in and playing on that day, no matter the playing time. So if you skip a day, you can return to it later : .