I just noticed a post on the members blogs for BYONDmail. I think this is a great idea, BYOND would be foolish not to integrate this into their community. I'd go as far as to say, have new e-mail notifications sent to you via Pager.
It got me thinking what else could we add to the BYOND membership experience to get people interested in having a membership.
I think it would be cool if we could figure out a way to have sites like Facebook or Twitter be relayed to our member's blogs.
Does anyone else have any ideas what BYOND could do to make the membership for BYOND more appealing?
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 Nov 28 2009, 5:04 am
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Developers need to be encouraged more to include member benefits in their games - as far as to say they could get certain awards from it - such as, if 10 new players register as a BYOND Member through this game to access the members area, the developer should get some sort of referral fee.
I think something similar is already in place, but it's most definitely not obvious or working. | |
Well, This is an idea that is really depending if anyone is able to afford this.. Basically, you can buy a server, where BYOND Members get about 10mb Hard Drive space, and a tiny share of Bandwidth, for hosting their BYOND Projects, or Websites.
This could benefit the BYOND Community by helping a lot of people who are on the hunt for a host but cannot find one, this can also help by allowing people to publicly test a project of theirs. As I said, this does depend if someone can afford this, and if this does happen, the person hosting maybe can get a tiny share of the amount any client of his has paid BYOND for thier membership. To stop a lot of lag multiple servers can be running, such as, different people can buy a server, set it up for the needed criteria, and a BYOND Member that may need the server can come sign up. It will see which server has least members and least usage, and according to that it'd assign them to that. -- Qubic | |
BYOND offered a very competitive and reliable hosting service at one point through Digitalmouse. Unfortunately people decided to squelch on their dues and Digi had to end up closing down the service. It was a really nice service and Digi would even let you 'test' for a few days to see if their service was for you or not.
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Yeah, and I believe such service should begin again, but not by one person, but by the BYOND Community, and this service should be free for all BYOND Memebers, I hope to maybe do such thing in the Future.
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I hope your rich. BYOND is never going to be able to provide free hosting to their members. That is a dream.
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I am not rich, I am still a child, but once I am able to get a job, I may be able to do this.. And it would technically not be free hosting, Schnitz had Pagered me about this. The cost for a server yearly was $15, so not bad, and basically your in partnership with BYOND, Payment for the server comes a bit out of your membership fee. Plus you can sell it to Non-Members.
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$15 for a server yearly, for what? A single individual plan? Because BYOND wouldn't be able to get a "$15.00 a year" server plan and try to allow every single BYOND member to host off it, it would be awful. You would be better hosting off a personal dial up connection if that's the case.
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Qubic wrote:
The cost for a server yearly was $15 I think you misunderstood me. I meant to imply (and hoped to express) that with the cheapest offer I could find, you'd end up with at least 15$ annually PER little resource game (64 MB RAM, some MB storage and about a GB traffic), not for a whole dedicated server, unless you meant as in VPS, which would still include different options. Which would, as I noted, double the membership cost and thus seems unrealistic. | |
Uh, yeah, let's say BYOND has 300 members, that would cost BYOND $4500.00 a year to offer that sort of hosting service. BYOND would in turn most likely spike the (in my opinion) already expensive membership costs. If they had to double the costs in order to be able to offer this sort of thing, no one would bite. Why pay $36.00 a year, when they could just buy that hosting plan by themselves?
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Other than that, I can't think of anything. Pretty sure BYOND has done almost everything they can.