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All the ideas and mods all revolve around money, so perhaps we should come up with ways to raise additional funds for the game and to help Lynx out.

Currently, the Poker Den is a mere 5 pounds...or just .05/day. Cheap! Would you be willing to pay more for Poker Den access? Reply to the poll above.

Can you think of other ways to raise money? Maybe a "Donate Now!" button on the game somewhere and on the blog. Maybe incorporate a way to purchase more skill or more chances at the skills game....i.e. limit 1/week or 1/month or something so it doesn't get out of hand. Some would probably pay 50 pounds to buy skill so they could win...so it'd definitely need to be limited. This wouldn't be a huge advantage (but some) to the players but would raise a few bucks.

Any other ideas?

i also had the idea of raising the pokerden membership a little to help towards costs of better prizes. I wanna pokersharks purse lol Laughing

i suggested £7/£7.50

At the moment a good way of 'donating' whilst getting something in return is to either buy advertising, or buy some wristbands. Wink

spindry

think the donate now button is a better option, some of the younger members might be put off paying more or quite simply not aford it and would be a shame to lose contributing members already in the fold, I for one if saw a donate button would happily throw a few extra pennies into the pot every now and again.

Buying skill from my experience in games (I have played a free online game for over 2 years now with thousands of loyal fans and they brought in a similar idea that you can pay to make the game better for you) and it caused uproar and alot of people left, primerrily down to the fact that it took away skill and replaced it with how much money do you have, thats not to say it a silly idea not at all just from my own experience have seen what it can do negativly.

I have also been involved with another online gaming clan for the last 5 years and we play first person shooters, play competetivly in europe and have our own game servers/ts channel/forums and we have never charged a suscription fee and soley relied on donations it has been very hard at times to keep it all going (it really isn't cheap to have all this I'm sure Lynx will agree) so charging a reasonable suscription here is a great idea and offering those who wish to contribute a little more would work well in my opinion.

The more ideas people come up with the better.

Spin.

Red Poker Shark Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 93

Again this seems to be more an issue of actual numbers.
There seems to be about 100 active playeres at the moment, out of which maybe only 30 are Poker den members Shocked

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This is a tiny figure and is amazing that you are able to run things atall on this budget ( well done lynx ).
It seems that as this is a small community it would be good to bang heads and come up with ideas that will increase the general population of PS.

Unfortunately at the moment I am stumped Sad

, but will try and email link to anyone and everyone.......... I would recommend we all do the same, word of mouth can be pretty powerful advertising.

Finally for anyone who is not using Poker den, WHY!!!!!!

It is a fun game without it, but it is neccessary to get anywhere in the rankings! there must be afew budding blizzo or nakds out there, pay for PD and find out..

spindry

Nice Work Dabe.

I'm already posting into our gaming forums which have access to a few hundred people I'm sure I can get a few more interested there.

P.S Dabe Like the Banner matey, one of my fav characters from any game I've ever played

Spin.

I WON THIS THING ONCE Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 469

Good Thread Jen, maybe Lynx can incorporate you into his publicity machine..............

A suggestion and it would need to be someone who already has this, but the likes of YOUTUBE or FACEBOOK, could hold a small 1 minute video clip of PokerSharks, surely.....

...These outlets dont mind what is advertised on them in the way of movies, something Lynx has mentioned b4 in the way of spamming and the traffic they get is huge.

Maybe someone with the skills to set this up or is already familiar with how it all works , could spend an hour or so putting it together and we could then all watch it and send the ''live'' link, to all our own buddies and workmates.........
Id gladly do it, but have no idea how to......could be fun trying though.

Just a thought that may help...........

The Iceman

PS.just incidentally Lynx, the advert boes that are up for grabs, are there 4, or do they chanhge per page, ill pass it round anyone i know to see if there is any interest, but a susual with internet ads, they always wanna know stats etc........cheers.

I like the idea of a donate button, then people can donate whatever they like.

Is there a way of putting a PS banner on, for instance, Facebook or MySpace? SoccerAM forum may not be returning so I can't spread the word there. I have an idea for another forum I go on.

I've PM'ed you Lynx with an idea that just popped into my head.

MODERATOR BLIZZO Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 231

DO NOT raise the price of poker den membership. I, and the faithful, are more than willing to pay more, but it will hurt the site in the long run. I can't believe I hadn't already thought of this, but a MySpace profile is a MUST. I'm more than willing to add you as one of my top friends, in fact, if you want me to, I'll even design and help run the pokersharks myspace page. Even my pizza restaurant has a myspace page, talk about 100% free advertising. It really is a good idea. Facebook is good too, although I don't use it, so someone else will have to volunteer.

Donate buttons don't always get all that much love, but what is the price of putting one up there? Its an investment that can only give positive returns, not negatives at all. One thing that can do really well for donate buttons is setting a goal (make it small at first) and then rewarding the community with something special once that goal is reached. I know a web comic that puts up an extra comic the week after the goal is reached. Pennyarcade, www.penny-arcade.com never charged a dime for viewing their amazing content, they started by asking for donations, and now make enough off advertising. Donations will pay a little, and like Myspace a button is totally free.

Good ideas here, and I'm glad so many care about the site.

Bliz

P.S. I'll try and think of some other ideas.

MODERATOR BLIZZO Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 231

I am a bit busy at work lately, so I can't guarantee anything fantastic right off the bat, but I'll try and have a decent looking Pokersharks Myspace by the end of next week.

Bliz

'Donate' button is on the blog, thats 1 thing ticked off..

ok all you sharks out there, PLEASE PLEASE HIT THAT DONATION BUTTON, its all for a good cause. where would we be without our beloved pokersharks? lol Very Happy