In game rewards for donations

[joshg111]

Motivation:
Increase donations to better improve overall gaming expeirence.

Recommendation:
For those who donate, a kind of reward can be given to them which exemplifies them as a donar in game. Maybe this is a rank symbol next to their name or a special skin mod for their units. Some of these rewards could be shown in game and also in chat/forums. As a side effect, this would increase awareness of the community regarding those people who donate perpetuating the cycle of donations ultimately making the game better

Downside:
Initial overhead for writing the code to enable rewards etc.
Initial overhead for marketing the rewards for donations.
You would have to ensure that past donors would get the rewards too.

[ckitching]

I think it's important that any such change is purely cosmetic. Giving donors an ingame advantage would create problems...

[Resin_Smoker]

This is no different from pay to play as seen in many smartphone apps / games. This why mobile devices as a gaming platform just outright sucks ballZ. Part of why is the large amount of emphasis placed on making money quickly, without releasing a completely functional product. In the end users are just nicked and dimmed to death with paying for a half arse release.

Besides whats the incentive for a non-contributing player to join a match with a player whos made a large donation...?

NONE

Unless there is some measure of equality and fairness their is no point in FAF existing.

Resin

[Vee]

This may be counter productive: you most likely will not be able to gather enough donations to employ a programmer, and even if you do then it may demotivate volunteer contributors who will not get paid. Rather make it easier for people to get started as contributors, and make their contributions more publicly recognizable, than try to incentivize it with money.

[Ceneraii]

Show avatars next to name ingame -> Done ^^

[Exotic_Retard]

as long as the rewards are cosmetic (or just in terms or recognition, or anything else) and dont affect gameplay, this is a nice idea:

it is used successfully in a variety of games (note: this is not pay to play at all), and seems to be one of the best business models curently available (case study : LoL)

but the thing is - theres lttle cosmetic reward to offer atm, and making unit skins is possible, but afaik we dont have any person with the skills who is willing to do it

Show avatars next to name ingame -> Done ^^

also this

[Mad`Mozart]

Come on, why do we have to litter the actual game with these modern and annoying business models for games to keep people in and sell their shit?
We already have personal avas that are (were?) available for large donation amount. Dont need to go further imo...


Go play dota then if you suck but still wanna feel special so you put in some moneyz

[joshg111]

I think it's important that any such change is purely cosmetic. Giving donors an ingame advantage would create problems...

Totally agree, donation recognition would have to be purely cosmetic.

Show avatars next to name ingame -> Done ^^

This is a good exampled imo. Seems like a very simple change to the game without causing clutter.

Come on, why do we have to litter the actual game with these modern and annoying business models for games to keep people in and sell their shit?
We already have personal avas that are (were?) available for large donation amount. Dont need to go further imo...

I just confirmed that there exists personal avas in game lobby. I would suggest including these in game.