(Followed your link from my other comment over here!)
Yeah, like dragonspine said, I don't think a lot of people would mind that two month purchase option disappearing from the regular accounts at all. People who want to buy two months can just buy once month twice, or x amount of points.
I think the use case for a Paid Premium is probably really different in practice these days than it was when you came up with the idea for the account tier. The original idea was "a way to give the site more money." But roleplayers actually use and "need" the feature set -- I find it actively kind of annoying to RP without that account tier. (You know how it is, I'm putting "need" in quotation marks because it deserves, like, three sets of quotation marks, lmao! This is not a real need! It's a preference, though. The icons are useful and fun and a big part of the culture and I also use a lot of the other features, especially tracking. Tracking/notification is incredibly important to me as a roleplayer. I don't use the DW inbox hardly at all except for actual inbox messages, nor do I use my reading pages; I use email notifications with automatically applied labels almost exclusively with Plurk posts as a backup. This works most of the time unless a news post has killed email notifs, which is a really rare occurrence, maybe once every couple of years anymore.)
I think most RPers who purchase Paid Premiums do not and would not experience choice paralysis about the purchase at all, but would really appreciate the option to buy either monthly or quarterly blocks of time with that feature tier, particularly in the event of price increases. It's just easier for a lot of people to spend smaller amounts of money at once, and the option would be wonderful. I suspect this would probably bring more money in for the site if it was an option.
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I think the use case for a Paid Premium is probably really different in practice these days than it was when you came up with the idea for the account tier. The original idea was "a way to give the site more money." But roleplayers actually use and "need" the feature set -- I find it actively kind of annoying to RP without that account tier. (You know how it is, I'm putting "need" in quotation marks because it deserves, like, three sets of quotation marks, lmao! This is not a real need! It's a preference, though. The icons are useful and fun and a big part of the culture and I also use a lot of the other features, especially tracking. Tracking/notification is incredibly important to me as a roleplayer. I don't use the DW inbox hardly at all except for actual inbox messages, nor do I use my reading pages; I use email notifications with automatically applied labels almost exclusively with Plurk posts as a backup. This works most of the time unless a news post has killed email notifs, which is a really rare occurrence, maybe once every couple of years anymore.)
I think most RPers who purchase Paid Premiums do not and would not experience choice paralysis about the purchase at all, but would really appreciate the option to buy either monthly or quarterly blocks of time with that feature tier, particularly in the event of price increases. It's just easier for a lot of people to spend smaller amounts of money at once, and the option would be wonderful. I suspect this would probably bring more money in for the site if it was an option.