New Premium Service Request

[Cowdenicus]

I am asking for a new Premium Service.

I would like the ability to pay 5 extra dollars a month, for 3 extra character slots. I do not wish to buy a third account, but would love some extra space on this account.

If I could get some developer feedback that would be great.

Thank you,
A Humble DDO addict.

[Nevthial]

/signed

I would even pay more than that if necessary.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Yup, I'd go for that.

[Memnir]

/signed with enthusiasm

If Turbine ever wanted a Premium Service that would be a sure-fire way to make money, this is it.

[Garth_of_Sarlona]

I hate petitions, so I won't 'sign' this. But I do agree

Garth

[Aesop]

Or even just a one time fee of 14.99 to open 1 Slot on a given server and you can buy up to x number of extra slots

Aesop

[Uska]

There should never be a bonus for paying extra money starts a bad trend.

[In_Like_Flynn]

Throw in another $5 for a shared bank account.

[ThrasherGT]

There should never be a bonus for paying extra money starts a bad trend.

OK, I'll bite, why exactly would this OPTIONAL cost for more slots be a bad thing?

[Uska]

OK, I'll bite, why exactly would this OPTIONAL cost for more slots be a bad thing?

They see you bite on this then they add other nicer stuff and you almost have to pay the extra costs to keep playing. They should just give slots to equal what they have in Europe, of course no matter how many slots they give us some wont be happy and want more.

[Cowdenicus]

They see you bite on this then they add other nicer stuff and you almost have to pay the extra costs to keep playing. They should just give slots to equal what they have in Europe, of course no matter how many slots they give us some wont be happy and want more.

and with this system those that want more can have them.

They offer character transfer services, and one doesnt have to use that to play the game.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

They see you bite on this then they add other nicer stuff and you almost have to pay the extra costs to keep playing. They should just give slots to equal what they have in Europe, of course no matter how many slots they give us some wont be happy and want more.

Except they have already said they won't give this to us for made up and silly reasons.

[Ildaron]

OK, I'll bite, why exactly would this OPTIONAL cost for more slots be a bad thing?

Just my thoughts but the reason I would see this as a bad thing, first people would pay money for extra slots. After that well no extra slots for anyone. We get some people pretty vocal about changes we didn't pay for now, you pay an extra $5 for two months and then hear three extra slots are being added and most people are going to feel cheated.

Lets not stop there how about they revisit that idea of paying for people to be involved in live events? I love live events, however I am on a budget I can't afford to pay for them and I wouldn't want to even if I have the money. Sure people would have a choice to do so or not, but I think it will sour people if they did so.

They could also revisit the idea for paying to be first in line. You have a game problem, you need to speak with a GM? You logged in a ticket first? X paid $5 so his ticket is claimed before yours.

Unlikely to happen? Well they did do a survey asking how much we would be willing to pay for such things. I myself don't want to start getting nickel and dimed for every feature the game has. I prefer the over all product to be so outstanding that I don't have any desire to pay anything extra for something more.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Lets not stop there how about they revisit that idea of paying for people to be involved in live events? I love live events, however I am on a budget I can't afford to pay for them and I wouldn't want to even if I have the money. Sure people would have a choice to do so or not, but I think it will sour people if they did so.

Although you are right that they could start charging for that, I doubt they would. It would probably be more trouble than its worth for a variety of reasons.

What makes the slot idea "sellable" is that we all acknowledge that there is a real cost to the, albiet small, storage space, in giving us more slots and that the alternative is to buy a $60/6 month new account. Anything that is roughly propotional in cost to that will be seen as reasonable by many.

They could also revisit the idea for paying to be first in line. You have a game problem, you need to speak with a GM? You logged in a ticket first? X paid $5 so his ticket is claimed before yours.

Definately could happen, I think it would be a mistake, but you know what, my local gas utility does exactly that. Not for leaks and life threatening stuff, but if your furnace is down mid winter night they put your call higher in the queue if you bought their "service plan".

[Samadhi]

Charging an additional monthly fee I see one large problem with - what happens if I want to downgrade my account? Sure, for a while it was great having 20 slots, but the expense got to me and I cannot afford them all anymore. Are the GM police going to come randomly delete my characters if I don't do so myself in a "timely" fashion? Seems too problematic.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am 100% behind the idea of paying a one-time fee for an additional character slot (and have mentioned this in the past as well). Make it similar to the character transfer in essence. Both provide the capability to get an extra character on the server of my choice. This method is both already somewhat in existance due to the transfer service and should be much less problematic in the long run. Much support from me.

Of course, I still prefer just begging for additional slots. I'm once again bored of high level content already and, with every character slot filled and capped, and left with little else to do. /signed for getting thrown a bone.

[ThrasherGT]

They could also revisit the idea for paying to be first in line. You have a game problem, you need to speak with a GM? You logged in a ticket first? X paid $5 so his ticket is claimed before yours.

There is certainly precedent for this to work. I use Case's Ladder as an example, where there are 3 levels of membership. A "gold" account guarantees customer service replies within 24 hours, "Platinum" within 12 hours, and "Diamond" within 6 hours. I'm not saying that I would like to see Turbine do this, but there are certainly business models out there that use it............

[Cowdenicus]

There should never be a bonus for paying extra money starts a bad trend.

I heartily disagree, it generates extra revenue for little cost, and is a convienience that the player base can CHOOSE to take part of, and as a heads up, I would use this service AND keep 2 accounts active, although I would only use this service on one account.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

There should never be a bonus for paying extra money starts a bad trend.

Most companies have options for services, its a good way of doing business. Not everyone wants to pay $20 for the full package you could offer so you charge $15, and have "extras" that can add up to $10 to the cost, so some pay $15, some back $25, some pay something in the middle. Everyone ends up happy. Why do you think they ask you what kind of oil you want when you get an oil change?

[JosephKell]

There should never be a bonus for paying extra money starts a bad trend.

I agree with Uska. This is a true slippery slope.

First it is $X for extra character slots. Then it is $Y for reduced raid dungeon reset clock time. It just escalates.

If you are so tired of your characters that you don't want to play them anymore and want to make new ones, perhaps it is time to delete an existing character?

[Cowdenicus]

I agree with Uska. This is a true slippery slope.

First it is $X for extra character slots. Then it is $Y for reduced raid dungeon reset clock time. It just escalates.

If you are so tired of your characters that you don't want to play them anymore and want to make new ones, perhaps it is time to delete an existing character?

Who says I dont play the characters?

Maybe some of us like to keep a wide spread of classes and levels. Maybe Cow likes to play so much he already has characters on all 5 servers. Maybe Cow already owns multiple accounts and doesnt want to start a third account. Maybe Cow just wants a few more character slots for fun.

Maybe Cow believes that Turbine Premium Services wont have anything to do with raid timers, and that you are putting in worthless arguments to pad your post count.