Freemiums get one month free only

by **HighlanderAttack** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:50 am

I think all freemiums now should be grandfathered in so they get to keep their freemium, but I think a certain date should be posted and from that date on all freemiums should get one month free only.

This would create good business for CC as players become attached to their screen names.

It would also prevent a lot of players that have no business playing for whatever reason you want to come up with.

Down side is more free accounts would be made up after the one month time limit runs out.

I think one month is plenty of time to try out a product. Again, all existing freemium accounts should be able to stay freemium and if your one year membership runs out you should be able to stay freemium.

This is my suggestion-you may or may not agree and you may or may not like it.

by **Metsfanmax** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:55 am

This would go well in the direction of destroying the casual atmosphere here, that everyone seems to be attacking lately.

by **Doc_Brown** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:45 am

Worst idea ever. If I was looking around for a place to play this type of game, I'd see that I could only play for one month free here, but I could play as long as I wanted on other sites (albeit with fewer maps and settings combinations). Money wins out and I never join this site. Some will still join and pay up, but I suspect there is a significant number of premiums that didn't buy in for several months or even for a couple years. So, essentially eliminate 90% of new freemium players and probably 30+% of new premiums. There is a certain turnover rate of the membership here as people drift away and get busy with other parts of life, so your overall membership starts to decline as a whole. People that are paying to play here are finding fewer new people to play against and games on the less popular maps never fill up. Those premium players let their memberships expire as they gradually migrate to more popular free sites. As they do, the process accelerates.
I'd say this suggestion would bring an end to this site within 5 years.

by **HighlanderAttack** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:51 am

Mets--I think you just like to disagree with everything--this is a competitive site-not a casual atmosphere.

This site would not exist if it was for free--it is the best value for a gaming site out there.

Doc-If you can't decide in a months time if this is something worth paying for you probably will never pay anyway. Maybe make it two months--but most (not all) free loaders seem to miss a lot of turns and bring down the competitiveness of this site anyway. Just click on ten freemium profiles--I will be you find two thirds of them miss more than a few percentage of their turns.

by **bigpash** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:39 am

I can understand your point HA, but a carrot approach maybe better than the stick.
Give new members more games for the first month so that they may get hooked into the site, then reduce this to 4 games.
This may encourage more to pay for premium.
The biggest problem for new players is when they join they expect games to move along much quicker than they actually do. So by giving them more chances to take turns they may find the site more interesting.

by **MichelSableheart** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:14 am

I believe you are seriously underestimating how big a part of the community freemium members are. Just take a look at a random page of the scoreboard. To prevent bias, avoid the top pages, as you need a lot of games to get there, and ignore the pages around 1000 points (as new recruits are significantly overrepresented there). You will find that the freemium members outnumber the premium members roughly two to one. Even if half of the current freemium members would be willing to buy premium (which seems an extremely high estimation to me), this suggestion would still reduce the site's userbase by about 1/3. Bad idea.

by **maasman** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:19 am

why all the hate on freemiums? I was a freemium for over a year and a half before someone got me premium, and now I got it again on my own for clan and tournament purposes. and I think freemiums can almost be more competitive because they only need to worry about 4 games. I had way more points as a freemium than I do right now.

by **Metsfanmax** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:23 pm

HighlanderAttack wrote:Mets--I think you just like to disagree with everything--this is a competitive site-not a casual atmosphere.

This site would not exist if it was for free--it is the best value for a gaming site out there.

Doc-If you can't decide in a months time if this is something worth paying for you probably will never pay anyway. Maybe make it two months--but most (not all) free loaders seem to miss a lot of turns and bring down the competitiveness of this site anyway. Just click on ten freemium profiles--I will be you find two thirds of them miss more than a few percentage of their turns.

HA - you may take this site seriously but for the majority of players it's not really that competitive. Hell, even I don't take it that seriously; it would be nice if I had a higher rank, but I don't play to make my rank as high as possible. I don't even have any active games right now; I play a lot of games when I can, and not so many other times.

I had a free membership for several months before I paid for premium. As Doc said, I probably would have quit the site outright, or never even joined, if my free membership was only a month long. The job of the site should be to please as many people as possible, not just the couple hundred who cry when they get bad dice rolls or lose to low-ranked players because they take things too seriously.

by **jefjef** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:50 pm

No. There are enough multi accounts. This would require CC to increase the number of hunters.

What I would love to see is Fremium/premium segregation.

I only want to play those who pay. Let the freemiums have their own multi fest and take their free dice with em.

by **TheForgivenOne** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:02 pm

And what about the 14 year old's who can't buy premium, and their mommy's won't use the credit card on the internet? What about the families who are in a bind as it is paying bills? What about the players who just enjoy playing this game every once in a while? example: mhennigan, Kiron, Thai Robert?

Suddenly players like these have to pay $25, just because they are freemium.

by **ChewyBlu3y** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:15 pm

I Agree with the idea, but yet, wouldn't you worry about the factor of Multi Accounts, due to everyone being able to produce accounts that are premium, they would use that as a chance of exploitations, in not only casual but speed games. I believe Farming would also be big if this were to happen. Plus there might be the issue of heavy traffic for Conquer Club.

by **TheForgivenOne** on Thu Aug 05, 2010 11:37 pm

And what about those freemiums that only play like 8 games, leave, and come back after a year? Are we going to force them to buy just so they can play? or force them to create a second account.