Originally Posted by Jahar_LoA
On a serious note here Drak, you are blowing this way out of proportion. How long have you had your donation tier's up and running, since your previous Varlyndria project right? You have given them every several other ways to obtain the gear and yet they still say Pay to Win. I never heard P2W on your last project. I played on your server. I know. What's that tell you.
On a personal note, I have money to spend, and I have donated to many, many servers on EQEmu. I don't donate for the gear, I consider it a perk, however there are some who do not want to do the work it would take to get the gear without donating, even though the option is there.
If I were you, I wouldn't change a thing. I had even planned on have donations opened up on my project, where in any item you could donate for could also be obtained without donating. That in itself creates balance, no one person can be more overpowered than the next. Player A might have to spend a little longer achieving that item, whereas Player B might have it in seconds, however, if I were Player A, I would consider it an accomplishment. One where you could laugh at the players who pay for all the items when they could get them for free.
People have money, they will spend it however they want. You gave them a reward for donating, and they did, and will continue too.
I feel what is pushing people away is your drastic changes all the time. You went from having raid content to solo content and now group content. People don't know what to expect from you.
I truly feel that the problem is not with how you handle donations, but with how you are handling your project.
Best of luck bud.
Jahar
P.S.
On another note, I'm not too sure if this will make sense, I will give it another read when I wake up, been DEV'ing for about 15 hours straight now.
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