{"id":1291,"date":"2011-06-24T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2011-06-24T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:00:21","slug":"the-unthinkable-gsb-micro-transactions-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/06\/24\/the-unthinkable-gsb-micro-transactions-or\/","title":{"rendered":"The unthinkable? GSB micro-transactions? or&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had plans to do another GSB expansion pack, with a new race, much like the Nomads.<\/p>\n<p>And then&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>GTB has basically taken over. Combine it with ShowMeTheGames (which isn&#8217;t getting enough attention as it is) plus lots of home-life related building-stuff, and I just am not getting enough sleep. But I do have<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of GSB players<\/li>\n<li>An artist willing to make new GSB ships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like to maintain control of stuff, so farming out DLC production to someone else is probably a &#8216;no&#8217; right now. The thing is, the time taken to make new damage textures, new weapons, balance them, and do the whole package would be a bit of a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>So I was thinking, especially on this day that Team Fortress 2 goes &#8216;Free To Play&#8217;, that maybe micro-transactions are the future, and I should just leap into the market for them with GSB. I could get new ship hulls made, and designed, and have them sold as mini-DLC. Of course, the problem there is that there are minimum credit-card fees that I get charged, so anything below $4 is basically a disaster in terms of profit, making the whole thing unviable.<\/p>\n<p>So I am scratching my chin thinking how viable it is to just do a bunch of extra base-race ships for GSB and sell them as a $4 mini-DLC booster pack. New federation, alliance, rebel and empire ships, by the original artist. That would take fairly minimal work, compared to the design of a whole new race. But would it make any sense? would there be a market for it?<\/p>\n<p>Would you pay $4 for a bunch of new ships? I know a lot of people would not be interested, but there don&#8217;t have to be thousands of people for it to break even.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had plans to do another GSB expansion pack, with a new race, much like the Nomads. And then&#8230;. GTB has basically taken over. Combine it with ShowMeTheGames (which isn&#8217;t getting enough attention as it is) plus lots of home-life related building-stuff, and I just am not getting enough sleep. But I do have Lots<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; The unthinkable? GSB micro-transactions? or&#8230;?<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/06\/24\/the-unthinkable-gsb-micro-transactions-or\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-gratuitous-space-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}