XeNo

Spartan's new boss has been eagerly awaiting his arrival.

This involves working with the code to see what the issue is. Perhaps it's something with Paypal or it's the way the plugin makes Subscriptions, I'm not sure. We will have to look into this and it may take some time. For now, understand that we add your Subscriber manually to Sourcebans so even if you lose it for a couple of hours or a day or two on the forums, your perks in-game remain and aren't being removed for that time period.

Another person I overlooked. I'm rerolling the PSN code since BJ said that US codes won't work in other countries unfortunately. New winner for the PSN code: Congrats!

We'll do more and more giveaways so don't worry! You'll have a chance. Also we may put a limit on how many people can win in a given time period if anyone wins like two giveaways in a row, luckily that hasn't happened yet.

LOL I completely didn't even look. I'm redrawing for it. LOL what an embarrassment.

Mapper something may have went wrong with how you Subscribed, it should have automatically set your rank to Subscriber if the payment went through. I included your name on the giveaways though just because I'm sure you're good for it. Edit: WINNERS! GTAV: PSN gift card: Evolve: CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS FOR SUBSCRIBING TO STEAMGAMERS!

Make sure you post if you want in on the PSN gift card giveaway, I'll randomly pick 3 winners for these prizes tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for Subscribing to SG and helping support the community everyone!

UPDATED ORIGINAL POST FOR GIVEAWAYS UPON GIVEAWAYS.

Dishonorable Subscribers will be treated as such: Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): rig it 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): rig it 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): rig it 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): GIVE IT TO ME 4:59 PM - XeNo: Taking your name out of the giveaway. 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): OMG 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): NO 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): PLS 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): IM SORRY 4:58 PM - Tsuna [sG] (◕ᴥ◕): DONT RIG IT

Lmfao.

This month we'll be giving away a pre-purchase of GTA V! It includes the following (Quoted from steam site here): If you would like to participate in this giveaway, it's easy: Make sure you're a Subscriber by the time of the giveaway (Tomorrow afternoon I will pick a winner) by becoming a Subscriber HERE! If you're already a Subscriber, sit back, relax, and cross your fingers that you're this month's winner! And as always, thank you for supporting the community! Edit: We will also be giving away a $20 PSN gift card Zorg got for Christmas that he doesn't want. This will be a separate giveaway sot here will be two winners. However, if you want the gift card please post in this thread you wish to be entered in that giveaway (So someone who doesn't own a Playstation won't win it). Edit2: BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. WE'LL ALSO GIVEAWAY A COPY OF THE NEW GAME EVOLVE THAT JUST CAME OUT. This will also be a separate giveaway for Subscribers only! Wooooooo! WINNERS! GTAV: PSN gift card: Evolve: CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS FOR SUBSCRIBING TO STEAMGAMERS!

I think the closest we're considering to what you're suggesting, is allowing Subscriber to be purchased for X months at a time for a price that may be slightly discounted from paying monthly (Much like what you are saying, 4 months for the price of 3 months or something) As far as bundles with server-specific perks, that isn't the route we wanna take with Subscriber. As you may already see with people getting Giveaways, we want things outside of server-specific perks to give to our Subscribers and to classify them as different "bundles, or groups" of subscribers would be difficult.

They are not a very good excuse, I agree. As people who ARE able to donate for it, can also just as easily cancel it right after and keep it for a month, making any semantics of "Subscribers always pay monthly" pretty much null. However, until we get more familiar with the way the plugin is working (Something TheVirus is working on figuring out right now) we can't customize the plugin yet. Once we are able to manipulate it's features, we will drag Subscriber perks to anyone who donates regularly for over $5. That will allow people to renew their Subscriptions on their own time, or someone who just wanted to donate can experience the perks of being a monthly donator. It's something we're working on putting in place but have no easy way of doing so. I apologize to Elemental while we are working to sort out a way to do this. While I would not mind handling his case specifically and letting him donate $5 regularly and setting him up with Subscriber, it's not something we can do for everyone for months on end because it would get extremely tedious.

Apologies for the delay, I had something that came up. The winner of the giveaway is... Congrats! Rilex has won Payday2 + any 1 DLC of his choice! Please add me on steam (http://steamcommunity.com/id/thisisxeno/) and I will gift you your prize.

I haven't been able to find any answers to why PayPal wallet can't be used for PayPal subscriptions, or a work-around for it. I'm sorry. If anyone else has any ideas, Elemental can't use PayPal wallet to buy Subscriber which I'm not sure why.

Early-bird Subscriber Giveaway! As a special thanks to the first couple dozen Subscribers, we're doing our first Subscriber-only giveaway! Rules: Must be a Subscriber by the time I randomly pick a winner (Which will be one of the people who are a Subscriber at the time of the giveaway)! You must have a game on your Steam Wishlist with a cost of $40 or less! When: I will be choosing a random winner tomorrow at NOON (12PM!) CDT. Roughly ~24 hours from this post. If you'd like a chance at the giveaway, feel free to Subscribe to SteamGamers in the next 24 hours! Good luck!

This was a mistake on our part for the most part. We really should have, but we had so many projects running at once we lost focus and fell behind. We're learning from this mistake in the future as we pick ourselves back up. We're actively thinking of new ways to make Subscriber NOT server-dependent. Giveaways, raffles, tournaments, or whatever we may come up with in the future to ensure it is not entirely reliant on server-based perks. The idea will be that even if you don't play in our servers, it's still a benefit to you to sign up for Subscriber.

I'll make a thread in the Subscriber section about how to cancel subscriptions until I can work out a "cancel subscription" button for people to easily use. Unsubscribing a person who gets permed is more or less on them, to be honest. I don't think we need to add more things for us to keep track of just because someone doesn't realize they should cancel. Any angry parents or anything that we get will just be dealt with by replying that they should keep better track of where their money is going if their kids are using it to pay for things. I don't see why SG has to be the parents in this situation. Ensuring someone re-subs could be something we can implement. I don't know about 3 warnings, but I think setting up a PM to go out a few days before their subscription end date will be possible. There's no plans to have different levels of Subscribers, at this time. In the future we may offer deals like pay more for 3 months of Subscriber at a reduced monthly cost, and/or we may increase the amount Subscriber costs. Keep in mind though, the first 50 Subs that stay for 3 months will only ever have to pay the $5 fee to get the perks.

Spiked gave a good explanation to some of this, however I figured I would chime in and share a bit more of the future for Subscribers. The reason for the 50 Subscriber-if-they-stay-for-3-months incentive is just as Spike explained, so that we can get a steady income for at least 3 months to regroup ourselves and stay pushing forward with our new form of revenue that will be steady and cheap for people to afford. The amount 50 Subscribers gives us, is more than what the upkeep of SG's finances will cost once we downsize the servers. The idea for this excess income is to give it back to the Subscribers, we will host raffles or giveaways for our Subscribers only, allowing them to get their some money back for supporting us. This is a direct answer to Zaraki's question about why they should continue to donate. While we will also give back to the community with community-wide events and giveaways/raffles, the first few we host will be Subscriber exclusively. This means you donate $15 (Sub for 3 months) and you get a chance at more than likely $180+ in giveaways for those 3 months. This is roughly the equivalent of us giving away a $60 game to subs only per month. Which will be entirely financed by the 50 sub goal we're aiming for. I made a point with our higher up staff (Namely Revenga) that as we gain excess money we are going to pour that right back into our Subs and community. Our profits are your gain, so to speak. Rather than saving it for a lower-donation month, we're going to give it right back so people hopefully realize there's a real benefit to staying a subscriber. As we gain more subscribers and donations in general, the rewards will be greater and you guys will hopefully see a direct impact of where your money goes. By greater I mean we may start off with a pre-purchase of a hot upcoming new game, RP in league, but then as the donations and subs keep rolling in, we'll upgrade that to Knives in CSGO, Rare gun skins in CSGO, Bundles of $60 games from steam sales, and more. We will also try to be more transparent in the coming months about where our finances lie and where your money is going. Expect to see our costs on the donation page, and hopefully giveaways that are fully paid for by you guys. Spike is entirely correct in saying Subscriber will become the early-access club, and we're going to make a point to keep it that way. I'm watching as people keep signing up for Subscriber and it only makes me smile to see you guys giving this a shot. I promise SG will not let you down for it.

If you subscribe and your rank does not update on the forums after ~30 minutes, please post here so we can address any possible issues there might be with Subscriber not updating properly on the forums.

Oh it does a bit, it's not as noticeable as the main forum page though.

This is pretty much true. Zaraki your idea has merit, but it's not realistically something we should be looking for. It is far better to focus our efforts on our own progress and maintaining our own servers than attempt a start-up collaboration server with another community. Mixing two communities is nearly impossible unless both communities have been mixing before any "official" merge ever happened. What I mean by this, is that by doing a collaboration, SG may gain players, traffic, population, and possibly revenue. However, SG loses power at the same time. We would have to work with another communities' staff in order to resolve any issues that come up, which there will be, and if we aren't on the same wavelength, that's going to be a major issue. Hellsgamers for example, they have almost no moderation of their admins. Their Admins have been known to kick people for just being better than them, force players to switch sides when they don't like dying to them, and overall abuse. This is mainly because you could (Don't know if you still can) buy admin from HG and they give it to you. Also the management over there is pretty shoddy. This means if any of our long-time members have a problem with HG members, we can't just simply take care of the HG members like we would normally, we would have to work with HG management to fix it, and if they aren't willing to do something about their side, there's "not much we can do" if we're in a collaboration with them and relying on it to sustain ourselves. Not to mention that fact alone will make any community we approach feel like they have power over us if we ask them to help us out by co-hosting a server with us. I just don't see it turning out nicely for us in the end. We're better off looking for ideas that we are in full control of, rather than bringing in an outside community to merge or even partially merge with us.

MozillaMomoneyFirefux.

The snow only follows the cursor on the main forum page. When looking at a thread/subforum they don't follow it. When I say follow, I mean the snow falls in the direction of the cursor. So if you put it in the lower right of your browser, the snow goes down towards the right, and vice versa for the left side.