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Inferior Minion
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:09 pm    Post subject: Castle Paradox goes pay Reply with quote

Castle Paradox has entered it's fourth year, which surprisingly coincides with roughly 4 thousand dollars spent on hosting and maintenance. Last September, I added Google Ads to the main page, hoping to create some sort of revenue from the site. In all, I have made $12.14, which doesn't even cover the cost of the DVD-RWs used for the weekly back-ups.

In all honesty, I really don't care about the costs incurred by hosting Castle Paradox. However, my study abroad burned a bigger hole in my savings account than I anticipated. Scheduling my trips to the gas station around my paychecks hasn't been all that enjoyable. Paying $54 a month for DSL has become an issue when my part time job only pays roughly $300 per month.

In an attempt to ease my bank account a bit, I've decided to implement a pay system into Castle Paradox. Starting next week, the following system will go into effect (don't worry, this only applies to new games/songs. All existing files will remain free of charge):
NOTE: All prices are in US Dollars.

$5.00 per game listing.
$1.00 per song listing. The listing allows for all supported formats. You do not have to pay $1.00 to upload the midi version and another $1.00 for the MP3 version.

In order to promote the extremely underused review system, every 10 reviews accepted earns 1 free game listing or 5 free song listings.

Cube and I are also working on pay-only features which we hope to implement soon. We are also open to suggestions for such features.

Depending on how this goes, I might even consider buying Business DSL (or Cable) at a much higher speed than CP currently supports.

Thank you,

~IM

[Edit: This was an April Fool's Joke]
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Linkmax
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, let's hope this doesn't steer people away.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IM, if I'm dating you, do I get a discount? 'cause you and I could go to dinner, and you could like, take me for overtime, and inspect my ballistics.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, at least it's not the traditional "Zantetsuken is shutting down" one we get every year.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That controversial thingie happened a year ago????
Man, it was just like yesterday.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is bull. IM's mom doesn't charge that much every night for sex Mad
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

......hmmmmm...
what date did IM posted that?..APRIL 1?......hmmmmm?..APRIL 1?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hopefully that's just a bad joke. Razz
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glurk...I was had.

And I came to CP expecting a joke thread!

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But damn, if April Fool's day isn't the most confusing time of year.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You might want to time these major major announcements a little better, boss.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're telling me. Last week, when I was helping IM integrate the Paypal system into the site (I've done it before, and I suspect I'll have to do it again later... Sad... ), I realized that it was going to fall on this day. But, did IM care? Noooo. After last year, I think he's beyond caring about this type of thing.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well its easy enough to find hosting sites that I can upload OHR up to. Games tend to be less than 10MB.
-This could be a joke
-But at the same time hosting fees do see to be a bit of a burden. But if this does happen I can see a definate fall of Paradox society.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A prank isn't very effective if someone tells everyone about it. Nice going adrian.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He's from the Phillipines, they don't allow humor there.
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