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How much would you be willing to pay for premium Wesnoth service?

$19.99/year USD
33
32%
$9.99/year USD
5
5%
$3.99/month USD
3
3%
I'm not paying for Wesnoth
63
61%
 
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Re: How much would you be willing to pay for premium Wesnoth?

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How could anyone doubt that this is an April Fool's joke? :augh:
Come on, guys! :roll:

Notice that the devs haven't said anything about you two deciding that it's a joke. :wink:
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Dave wrote:Remember, no other game does anything like this. Most other games have AI's that are too crappy to ever take perform cheating with RNG manipulation. This is why the truly advanced AI's available are for games like chess -- because in such games there are no random numbers so the AI can't cheat. We're breaking new ground by trying to provide a game with an advanced AI, and an RNG, yet keeping the RNG safe from the AI.
Yes, we have to do this to prevent the WesnothAI from eventually replacing SkyNet as the "really evil AI". Right now the AI code seems to already be able to do spontaneous mutations which allows it to use RNG cheats that were never meant to be possible for it. Beware of SkyNet 2.0 aka "the advanced WesnothAI".
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Captain_Wrathbow wrote:How could anyone doubt that this is an April Fool's joke?
Expect the worst and you won't be disappointed. I'd rather believe this and laugh at myself later than not believe in it and get the shock of my life later on... but it is interesting the devs haven't said anything about this.... (hint, hint)
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While it is just being announced now, oddly enough the developers have known about these changes for some time now.

I have already started working on a WML Support Premium patch that will offer exclusive services for the Wesnoth "Premium" users.

The way it works is fairly simple: if the scenario you are running encounters a WML error of any sort (or a parse error while loading), it will pause the execution of the program and dial up a WML Support Wizard. In the initial patch I just have it dialing up zookeeper's cellphone, but eventually we could set up a whole Call Center if the feature becomes popular enough. This brings up a prompt that lets zookeeper essentially log into your computer and fix your WML code in real-time. If he's fast enough, you may not even notice that any error has occurred.

There are still a few details to work out such as pricing, but it's basically ready.
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Sapient wrote:The way it works is fairly simple: if the scenario you are running encounters a WML error of any sort (or a parse error while loading), it will pause the execution of the program and dial up a WML Support Wizard. In the initial patch I just have it dialing up zookeeper's cellphone, but eventually we could set up a whole Call Center if the feature becomes popular enough. This brings up a prompt that lets zookeeper essentially log into your computer and fix your WML code in real-time. If he's fast enough, you may not even notice that any error has occurred.
OMG imagine how convenient for Wesnoth iPhone users! This is a must.
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Then no april fool's day joke, I'm afraid. Thought not. I'm sure the developers know better than I do, but I still have my doubts... Wesnoth has always seemed so 'clean' to me, and now there's premium editions and monthly/yearly fees and such...
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I can't believe this, the game I got two years ago only because it was free, is now starting to try to become a comercial game :cry: . It started with the iPhone (excusable), but now this! IMO this is not right. I do hope that the devs come out and say "Best April fools joke I've ever pulled in my life! :lol2: ".

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Dave wrote:We are also talking with our artists about making a free t-shirt available for paying members. Something amusing like "real (wo)men play with real random numbers" complete with an illustration of millions of web pages floating into a vortex which mashes them around and pops out random numbers -- a pleasing illustration of how our new RNG will actually work.
This really makes me think that this is all an April fools day joke. If not, Dave I think you are working a little too hard and need a vacation.
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Sigh. Anyone who really still believes this at this point has more issue that I care to mention. If I were you, I would just wait until tomorrow.
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artisticdude wrote:Then no april fool's day joke, I'm afraid. Thought not.
I really hope its a joke. But for that to be the case its looking increasingly like the whole Dev. staff would have to be in on it.
I'm sure the developers know better than I do,
Don't assume so. Having a title doesn't nessissarily make you smarter. And being a better programer/artist/whatever doesn't nessissarily mean you know anything about financial decisions.
but I still have my doubts... Wesnoth has always seemed so 'clean' to me, and now there's premium editions and monthly/yearly fees and such...
I really think it would be a bad idea, if only because it would anger so much of the fan base.
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next step: now add-on authors can charge money too! :lol2:
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Pentarctagon wrote:next step: now add-on authors can charge money too! :lol2:
:lol2: Better start working on one quick then! :lol2:
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Well, if it is an april fool or not do not matter at all because the game is open sources, so even if they were asking you money to simply lauch the game, you would be abble to legaly hack the sources and compile it to pay a monthly fee of 0 $ :roll: . Oh, and the new AI is really smart, since I installed wesnoth 1.8, my computer is autoprogramming himsself and speak of plot to take over the world, nice job!!! :shock:
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Pentarctagon wrote:next step: now add-on authors can charge money too! :lol2:
As a writer, I find it only fair to ask if this new idea of paying artists would extend to writers. :D
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Even if we we began getting charged to play, we'd all get it for free anyway, off ThePirateBay or something.
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Hulavuta wrote:Even if we we began getting charged to play, we'd all get it for free anyway, off ThePirateBay or something.
ERROR: We would get it free and legaly on the wesnoth.org site as they are forced to give us accest to the source code unless they manage to relicense the game.
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