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Jan 6, 2002, 8:21pm

Does anyone know how pricing will affect the other universes ?
If the others keep the current pricing, everyone will flee there. I'm sure AW realizes that.
If they have to upgrade to the new pricing system, well, that sucks.

Anyone knows?


By the way, I haven't answered to any of the posts about the new pricing system, but I won't renew my citizenship which expires in a
month or so. I just started creating my own chat/building program in answer to the announcement. (I had been thinking about it for a
long time anyway)

Fox Mc Cloud

Jan 6, 2002, 8:53pm

universes set their own pricing systems. the onyl way they will be effected
is if aw runs out of money and the unis have to shut down

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Jan 6, 2002, 8:53pm

I wouldn't be surprised if universe prices were raised so that, in turn, the
owners had to raise their prices as well. Not doing so would be bad
business, because they'd be reducing their income substantially when people
leave.

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Jan 6, 2002, 9:07pm

As I understand it, universes are sold once and for all, and don't pay a periodical fee to AW after that.
At least, the one I'm in was bought that way...

Fox Mc Cloud

"brant" <awteen at shoemakervillage.org> a écrit dans le message news: 3c38d567$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I wouldn't be surprised if universe prices were raised so that, in turn, the
> owners had to raise their prices as well. Not doing so would be bad
> business, because they'd be reducing their income substantially when people
> leave.

Jan 6, 2002, 10:36pm

The AW Website used to state that for Universes and Galaxy's that you pay a
one time fee, and then pay a 40% fee for upgrades, thereafter.




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Jan 6, 2002, 11:47pm

it does not say you HAVE to upgrade

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Jan 6, 2002, 11:54pm

That is the way I understand it too. My impression is that the software
is "hard coded" for a particular total land area and total number of
online visitors. My understanding is that the privately owned Uniserver
does not need to communicate with the "mother ship" in order to discover
these things the way a world server communicates with the Uniserver.


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Jan 7, 2002, 12:01am

You don't have to pay the 40%. Only pay it when you want upgrades after
the first year. (I think the 40% entitles you to all upgrades for the
next 12 months after you pay.)

Another model that AW Corp might try is the yearly maintenance contract.
For software in the $10,000 US and up range 15% to 20% per year is
pretty standard. Of course if you "forget" to pay for a year or two,
then want to upgrade you have to catch up on all your missed years or
pay full retail again.

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Jan 7, 2002, 12:52am

The servers total land and users is all in the license code in the
server.ini, and now in the 128bit license file. Also, the newer versions of
the universe software do communicate with the mother ship, but they do not
check the total land and users against the server running at AWC. They do
tell mommy if its cracked, or someone is trying to break it.

-Joe

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Jan 7, 2002, 12:58pm

If the mother ship is not there to answer the call from a uniserver that is
hosted elsewhere, will the uniserver still run? If AW goes belly-up and for
some reason the power to their servers/hosting computers is turned off, will
all uniservers then die because of the inability to connect to the mother AW
ship?

W
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Jan 7, 2002, 1:15pm

Hiya Wendel,
As far as I know, the know-how and the technology is distributed and
comes from the Activeworlds, so no matter about hosting or mother ships,
they will all die sooner or later, otherwise other events might take place.
icey

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>hosted elsewhere, will the uniserver still run? If AW goes belly-up and for
>some reason the power to their servers/hosting computers is turned off, will
>all uniservers then die because of the inability to connect to the mother AW
>ship?
>
>W
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Jan 8, 2002, 3:44pm

then they'll have to resort to cracking the uniserver (nobody's gonna be
there to tell them not to, and they'd go bankrupt to if they don't), and
they'd probably prosper more since the AW uni would be gone, and they
wouldn't have huuuuge lisence renewal fees every year...

KAH

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Jan 8, 2002, 5:41pm

There's no universe license renewal fee...

Fox Mc Cloud

"kah" <kah at kahnews.cjb.net> a écrit dans le message news: 3c3b3018 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> then they'll have to resort to cracking the uniserver (nobody's gonna be
> there to tell them not to, and they'd go bankrupt to if they don't), and
> they'd probably prosper more since the AW uni would be gone, and they
> wouldn't have huuuuge lisence renewal fees every year...
>
> KAH

Jan 9, 2002, 2:50pm

hmmmm, I thought there was, I was wrong then :-)) guess I confused with the
upgrade lisence

KAH

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Jan 9, 2002, 3:57pm

Or was it the licence upgrade? *g

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