Dev's Diary: Premium Accounts

[Jonius_Maximus]

I'm curious how are they going to do it... "special" shop category for "premium" account... doesn't sound right for me if these were just plain old gem purchases, you already paid gems for "premium" account, now as a reward you can pay more gems for "special" buffs?

But then, what currency would it be, maybe a new "premium" currency?

What they are saying is that there will be a special shop category to buy the buffs that give you premium status, not that there will be other things available in the shop for those with premium status

[Jonius_Maximus]

For all those whining about how much they don't like the premium program and saying that they will quit the game over it etc etc etc.... or that it's too expensive etc...

What you need to ask yourself is this simple question: If you don't buy the premium program, will its existance make ANY difference to your gameplay whatsoever? If not, then what are you complaining about?

If so, please elaborate, I'm sure that BB would like to know about any unintended negative effects on players without premium.

Of course, if they price it differently on different servers then it throws their idea of server to server competition out the window. But I think their massive differences in gem prices and bonus pricing have a bigger impact on inter-server competition than something like this would.

[Tinkerjenn]

I don't think giving honest opinions and feedback about pricing structures, etc is "whining". The development team NEEDS this feedback to make the game (hopefully) better.

[n1i3k6o9n]

The average price for a browser game is about $6. You can't compare browser games with premium mmo. This game has even less content then the average browser game does. But from the prices of items sold at the shop I doubt I would call this new addition reasonable.

This will most likely be taken down and I hate to say it, but I have to agree here.

Man, is it really worth it? Is it really worth paying $5 to $10, just to get resources faster? I don't understand why someone would pay for something like this when really, all you have to do is just wait a few hours.

This raises a lot of questions for me, specifically why are the developers devoting man-hours to create content like this, when they could be creating something else. This is a browser game, a "city building" browser game. A casual and, most often, friendly game. Adding a premium content to a casual browser game doesn't make sense. So clearly, why are they milking their players.

[Tinkerjenn]

I would just like to comment that pogo.com (not mmo-ish like this, but browser based) has literally hundreds of games you can play, earn badges, do challenges, tournaments, chat, etc. and their "premium" membership costs $5 a MONTH or $35/year. Just putting it up for comparison.

[YPSA]

when will we have levels over 50

[Artillerist]

the premium account stuff is on test server and the gem cost does not seem overly high atm.
If the Buff that gives you premium account remains tradeable and also on trade tab it is a way for gem sellers to also sell these for resources or gold. This is a great plan making them tradeable.

[Moonlime]

The dev diary contains all the information I have on this upcoming feature at this time but premium accounts should be on the test server soon so players will be able to try them out.

and do we get a bigger island with this? ^^

[fdroopy]

too bad for the ones who are lv 50 or just below

[Ornias]

My island is completely finished at level 5. I have 0 spaces left, and 9 free building licenses. If I had a bigger island, this might appeal to me, but what is the point now? I have 0 expert buildings constructed except for the science system (and they are level 5). Without more space, I have no need for more loot or experience.