Monetizing Lordaeron. Discuss

[bestgamer1]

Exactly that Roarek.

[toniplavna]

That would take a long time, they need funding sooner rather than later. There certainly wont be any new hires to work on things like wintergrasp I imagine. Older players have already donated on Rag and Dwing imo. New players are potential new donations, and new players are coming to Lordaeron.

How you know that they need funding sooner rather than later? Do you have any info on their finances???

[toniplavna]

Couple of ideas, open donations for:

- most armor/weps, not 1, but couple of tiers lower. e.g. donate for toc when icc is up and running; and furious when wrathful - moderate cost, milk this puppy; much lower tier quality means its ok for more people to donate for it, reasonably cheap so people want to
- lvl 60 with blues ~25 euro
- lvl 70 with blues ~40 euro
- skip que if realm is split (i bet many would donate just for this if it came out)
- make sure you add all rare glyphs, recipes, meta gems etc. e.g. mystical skyfire diamond

So you are making old lordaeron again? Why?

[Dimitri312]

Can't we just sell cookies from house to house?

If 10k ppl in server are playing and 2k ppl are waiting at queue for houers,
those ppl who wait can sell cookies from house to house and say we sell it
for like 3e - 5e each and we do 10 houses all.

Well estimated you could make 60k euro - 100k euro
Think we can play for a long time...

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/sell-...ess-22113.html

There the guide for baking cookies and how to sell them.

Regards Wazaah :)

[buhehe]

Can't we just sell cookies from house to house?

If 10k ppl in server are playing and 2k ppl are waiting at queue for houers,
those ppl who wait can sell cookies from house to house and say we sell it
for like 3e - 5e each and we do 10 houses all.

Well estimated you could make 60k euro - 100k euro
Think we can play for a long time...

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/sell-...ess-22113.html

There the guide for baking cookies and how to sell them.

Regards Wazaah :)

[Zane2001]

I'd gladly donate for transmog, race change, faction change and Recruit A Friend system.

[Plush]

How you know that they need funding sooner rather than later? Do you have any info on their finances???

The link off the front page, Kaer mentions cutting staff.

Recruit a friend and queue skip also things people will def pay for. I think a x2 exp boost will bring in the most.

[Quorion]

I think the staff is being too narrow just thinking on items. Bonus services should be offered. lordaeron has people that are less likely to donate for crude advantages (gear) but more likely to donate for things that would make the most tedious experiences a bit less tedious, or also "Utility". For example

- Bonus to profession skill ups (Pay to have 50 skill points added to one of your proffesions)
- Reputation bonus (Pay to increase your reputation with a faction by 1000)
- Reduced Hearthstone cooldown
- Many Others, not my job to figure out how the staff has to fix their server

[bluepumpkins]

I had already predicted this thing will show up regarding lack of funding.

Reason being imo is, its alright that they made custom changes to raids and the scripts to make things hardcore. There are hardcore raiders as well on realm who are doing their job nicely. But a realm doesn't really depends upon those hardcore raiders but donors more. One simple straight line "you are playing because others are donating"

Hardcore raider part :-
I am a hardcore raider, why would i donate for the gear which i can achieve with my hardwork and raiding skills ?
I play 12 hours a day enough to farm up anything on realm,then whats use of wasting real cash and ruining my own fun ?

Donor part :-
I am just a raider, i raid casually with my guild and other friends. We do the raid and have our nice time. We are moving to new raid sooner on realm so lets see what is there on Store.
(Browses through gear on store)
umm, it would be much easier if i get that item to increase my tanking, healing or DPS.
Happily donates

Donor Part 2 :-
Keep in mind, almost 80% donors are soft stressed lads.
Farms heroics for a few stuffs, gets BiS goes into raid. Wipes on naxx raid due to buffed damage. OMG what is this ?
and then he decides to play just for fun and not donate for further gears.

A donor just buys the time with cash which he would had waste to level up, levelling prof, farming bgs or raids. But if a donor is not satisfied with the quality of content provided he wont donate, this is the simple basic theoram.

There were others as well who pointed that raid should be hardcore, but not such hard enough to corner the donors on realm.
Obviously someone will encounter me telling 10k population of realm, may be realm wont lose population but it will lack funds forever if the same scenario keeps going on.
or someone will come and counter me saying its hardcore realm only, for those i will repeat my words "a realm doesn't depends upon number of hardcore players but number of donors more to keep the expenses flowing"
if you still cant assess the issues, you can keep it going the same for few months more and may be then you will realize the donor part of the show.

no hard feelings, i just posted what i hear from people in-game. but none of them is worried to post on forums as everytime someone comes up and says something, he gets cornered on forums.

its your realm, you better should assess what you should attend to and what steps should be done to make it upstanding one for a long time.

[Bioness]

Character Recustomization was added to Lordaeron for 10 coins.

It appears to include name change, although I just used it to change my character's skin color. Not sure if it was added by mistake or not.

[Obnoxious]

Character Recustomization was added to Lordaeron for 10 coins.

It appears to include name change, although I just used it to change my character's skin color. Not sure if it was added by mistake or not.

Yes, it's intentional and yes, I've had it confirmed it includes a name change.

[Mr. Lahey]

Yes, it's intentional and yes, I've had it confirmed it includes a name change.

Just want to add that previous names will be listed on your armory profiles therefore the reputation will still have to be maintained. For those that are dreading ninjas, please keep in mind that it is ninja looting is against our rules and is bannable.

[ppoupiuyiuy]

Just want to add that previous names will be listed on your armory profiles therefore the reputation will still have to be maintained. For those that are dreading ninjas, please keep in mind that it is ninja looting is against our rules and is bannable.

this applies only to raids?

I reported 2 ninjas from dungeon a week ago and they login every single day.

[Obnoxious]

this applies only to raids?

I reported 2 ninjas from dungeon a week ago and they login every single day.

It's clearly stated in the very first line of the post describing how to report players for "ninja'ing" that this applies to Raids.

[Firnblut]

Did you consider a $$-lotterie for Lordaeron?
You could give some really nice prices but noone would be able to just buy their BiS-gear because they never know if and what they are going to win.

Make some lotterie-only awards available. Say special mounts that are not obtainable in-game. There a some never used mounts, TGC-, Blizzcon-, Recout-a-friend-rewards and i bet there's more stuff like this other than mounts.