My concern about price increases/restructuring as a roleplayer would be mainly - would that 50/yr mean there's only the option to pay on a yearly basis? RPers seem to make up a pretty large portion of the market for paids, which we do to extend icon slots, but I only go month by month because one month I might not be active with character x and instead want to put a paid on character y and I know people who do the same.
I'm not wholly opposed to price increases, but it's hard to say without knowing how much that increase would be. I will say that the comparatively low price for a paid on dreamwidth compared to virtually anywhere else is a huge selling point for me, because it doesn't feel like a big deal and I know that I'll more or less always have 3 bucks to renew, so at any given time I usually have at least 2 or 3 paids going, which is pretty significant in terms of my spending patterns because I literally don't subscribe to any other monthly internet service/premium account/etc.
With RP icons usually the most important ones get uploaded first, so that means that once you upload a bunch of icons onto a paid, you can end up in a situation where in order to use the most core ones again you have to renew the paid because they are now locked (as they were chronologically uploaded earlier) - which isn't a big deal to me when it's a low cost thing like it is right now, but if it were like 10/mo or something, it would keep me from doing a paid at all because I wouldn't know if it was sustainable and wouldn't want to box myself in.
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I'm not wholly opposed to price increases, but it's hard to say without knowing how much that increase would be. I will say that the comparatively low price for a paid on dreamwidth compared to virtually anywhere else is a huge selling point for me, because it doesn't feel like a big deal and I know that I'll more or less always have 3 bucks to renew, so at any given time I usually have at least 2 or 3 paids going, which is pretty significant in terms of my spending patterns because I literally don't subscribe to any other monthly internet service/premium account/etc.
With RP icons usually the most important ones get uploaded first, so that means that once you upload a bunch of icons onto a paid, you can end up in a situation where in order to use the most core ones again you have to renew the paid because they are now locked (as they were chronologically uploaded earlier) - which isn't a big deal to me when it's a low cost thing like it is right now, but if it were like 10/mo or something, it would keep me from doing a paid at all because I wouldn't know if it was sustainable and wouldn't want to box myself in.