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Shane · 05-06-2006, 08:34 AM

It doesn't take long once you head to Iron Realms or some other pay-for-perks site to find out they are indeed pay for perks. I never saw them as somehow hiding those facts.

I notice it gets brought up that a lot of people being interested in something means that the admins of the site, game, etc ought to get crackin' and do the thing being demanded. While I on the one side don't quite understand why admins don't do that, especially admins with a profit motive to grow their user base, at the same time I know that there are a lot of reasons that play into an admins decision to implement or not to implement certain features, chief among them often being, "how much more time am I going to have to spend enforcing this?"

This mud site seems to more or less run itself in its current model. I don't know how much money it brings in from adds, but it seems likely that it doesn't pull any massive profits. I could easily be wrong about that.

I dunno. Just... ideas floating around in my head for folks to consider.

05-06-2006, 08:34 AM	#19
Shane Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 159	It doesn't take long once you head to Iron Realms or some other pay-for-perks site to find out they are indeed pay for perks. I never saw them as somehow hiding those facts. I notice it gets brought up that a lot of people being interested in something means that the admins of the site, game, etc ought to get crackin' and do the thing being demanded. While I on the one side don't quite understand why admins don't do that, especially admins with a profit motive to grow their user base, at the same time I know that there are a lot of reasons that play into an admins decision to implement or not to implement certain features, chief among them often being, "how much more time am I going to have to spend enforcing this?" This mud site seems to more or less run itself in its current model. I don't know how much money it brings in from adds, but it seems likely that it doesn't pull any massive profits. I could easily be wrong about that. I dunno. Just... ideas floating around in my head for folks to consider.