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Mid-January will probably be fine as I imagine things are going to be slowing down for the holidays soon.
Some game masters may need to recruit new members after having some New Year dropouts and a floating license will help us find new recruits.
Look forward to your efforts.
FYI, I had 4 new players last night and the game ran really well with 7 players, myself, the tokens and a decent-sized map. Would have gone more smoothly if I'd remembered to pre-load it.
R
I don't mind a delay as long as it is some comunication about it. :) I am glad to see the floating licenses coming along and will buy up one or two to tie to my main license.
- Obe
Ditto here. I have a couple players that are interested... but not enough for a full license... yet.
I'm hoping once they can sit in on a game or two each, they'll buy.
You can also relay to them that the Lite to Full upgrade path is now permanently available. They no longer have to buy the full version on faith alone or worry about having a limited version that gives them no credit towards the full purchase later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rienen
The DM of my local weekly F2F game, is looking at virtual table top software he has narrowed down to Fantasy grounds as a final contender. We talked about licensing and he was quite enthusiastic about the floating license program. He would buy his DM license and the Floating licenses for his group.
I Told him that it's scheduled to come out in January - we'll see if he stays his purchasing hand till then.
zWolf -out.
This is about the best news going. Especially seing as you seem to not favour the subscription route. However I do have one slight query, financing half a dozen floating licences will come in at 6 x $30 = $180 comes in at around £110 real money. I accepet that there will be bulk purchase discounts and so forth, but still anything in the region of £100 is a lot to fork out in one hit.
Are there any plans to assist those not overflowing with that much spare cash in one hit?
I know you are running a company and all that goes with that, and ... I suppose the best arrangement for someone in my position would be to buy them as and when I could afford it, but I'd be prepared to buy one or maybe two floating licences, a month.
Norm
with the bundling discount 4 lites come out to about 15 bucks a pop... 1/2 the 30 you are quoting and less then the 24 bucks or so each lite costs on their own.
a fair price if you can get your group motivated ;)
The plan is to allow you to buy additional floating licenses incrementally instead of having to do so all at once. That does make things a little more difficult than allowing a one-time Full+X Floating licenses since we have to hook it up to your license somehow.
Hopefully you can encourage some of your players to actually go with a full or regular license and only pick up the floating licenses for those less than regular players in your group.
I think that many of those looking at doing this will be doing a DM + 5 floating... It costs about 115 bucks right now to do that with light licenses. (what's that... ~60 Pouinds Accross the pond? )
Personally, I bought a DM + 7 because my group was going to be a tich bigger. That was about $145.00
I'm still holding to my understanding of the EULA that 'I' own the licenses. even if I decide to install the light client on a friends machine. so that way if one friend moves from the group, that I can transfer the program - licensed to me, to another computer belonging to another friend - my 'own' version of floating license, which like I said - the EULA doesn't appear to prohibit. Though several of the community would disagree with me on that point.
I think I would have been willing to spend about $150 for a DM + 5 floating... but ya, at some point if the floating licenses cost tooooo much, they won't be useful to the situation that it seems many people want to use them for. (the DM+group people)
on the flip side, there were a large number of users that seemed to want just 'one' floating license so that they could do 'demos'. In that situation I imagine users would be willing to pay more for a single floating license.
heh, I don't envy DDavidson trying to come up with the formula that will allow him to find the sweet spot in generating a profit. G'luck to ya mate!
but, I would look at trying to cater to both groups of customers... so perhaps a hefty single floating license cost, and a hefty 'bulk' (5 or more) discount.
happy day's!
zWolf -out.
I would like to point out that in a perfect would you would be correct, there would be nothing wrong with this. But the world we live in is far from a perfect world, and there is nothing to ensure that the previous user will stop using his install of FGII. At that point you run the risk of having more than one instance of the same key in use at the same time, and I would say since information is passed through the FG server when connecting through alias, you run a risk of your reg key showing up in the system multiple times at the same time, and they would be more than justified in disabling all of your keys when this happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by zWolf
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I would also like to point out I am not 'picking' on you... I would think that the majority of us who have more than one key at one point or another has 'loaned' our key to a friend so that we could get through a session.... This is part of why I pushed so hard for a floating license structure.