Paying a community to play!!!

[Scooby Doo]

Okay so I heard on another forum a rumor that you had to pay Custom Combat Gaming to play on their servers. Before posting anything and in disbelief I did my homework. It is not easy to find anything but I did find this post http://customcombatgaming.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23201-cannot-connect-to-the-dev-servers/

After reading this post I was in shock!! I have already paid for Arma 3 why should any community be allowed to charge me to play on their servers?

Now I dont post this to start trouble but to let the community in a whole know what is going on. It is only if we ban together can we put an end to this before it catches on. Look to the future if it is allowed for CCG then others will be doing it. That is just not right.




Posted Today, 02:55 PM

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sup lads,



I just made the contract to pay 10/per month to get the access 2 the dev servers

but when i connect to them it still tells me that i have 2 get whitelisted.



(sorry for my bad english with russian grammar)

[Scooby Doo]

Bump

[Scooby Doo]

For all that read this BI has allowed some communities to charge for playing on their servers. However as seen in this list https://www.bistudio.com/monetization/approved/arma3 Not all commuities follow this rule. Some are just special. Some mod communities like Exile support this groups because Exile is being Developed by the very people bringing Pay to Play to Arma!!

[Dakota]

If they pay for their servers it's not a big deal, that's their space.

[Ricardo]

You only have to pay to join the dev servers. Normal servers are open to everyone but usually full 24/7

[Scooby Doo]

We as server owners are not suppose to be making profits on this stuff. We volunteer our time and money. This is why I have big issue with it. I plan to get enough signatures together between now and the end of Jan. I will show BI what the community wants and shut down this disgusting act. CCG is not even on any list that says they are allowed to participate. They do it anyway because they think they are above all.

[Sgt Smash]

Credit Card Gaming lol

[Scooby Doo]

Originally posted by Sgt Smash:

Credit Card Gaming lol

If the shoe fits..........If they did not have what 25-50 servers their bills would be so much lower. Wonder if they are not also the people in charge in Washington...........LMAO

[BOYCOTT]

Originally posted by Dawg711:

Originally posted by Sgt Smash:

Credit Card Gaming lol

If the shoe fits..........If they did not have what 25-50 servers their bills would be so much lower. Wonder if they are not also the people in charge in Washington...........LMAO

credit card gaming is a name that CCG earned, hope they're proud of it, but at the same time at least they're not 100% pay to win like they used to be with arma 2 mods $15 "ultimate subscriber" package for that lets you spawn out fully kitted minus a main weapon, sure the pistol it comes with is ♥♥♥♥ and barely only useful for zombies, but hey, it's still pay to win.

i've heard of other ones that are pretty bad as well for exile servers, a thread i read proposed "vehicle insurance" basically free replacement vehicle anytime you lose any of your vehicles no questions asked for $5-$10 month, shockingly the people proposing this didn't really seem to understand what is pay to win about it either, in effect it's a service that allows you to suicide-bomb/kamikaze vehicles infinitely with no loss, oddly enough though if it was also available for ingame currency as well then i can't hardly say there's any problems with it, sure you can still play like a noob with reckless abandon, but at least it's not only the people who game primarily with their credit cards who have access to it.

[edit] also since you're apparently new to the CCG community, you have always had to ask a mod/admin to manually whitelist you once payment has been made, nothing's changed there. [/edit]

[TheCrow]

Pain it is but there servers they can do what they like..

https://www.bistudio.com/monetization

[Dj Otacon]

Some authorized server can be monetized others - custom content servers - are free.

But most of the clans pay to rent servers and usually all the members give a fee to maintain the server payment too.

Nothing new under the sun.

But there's a lot of free server to play.

And this feature has more than 6 months ago.

[Scooby Doo]

There are still free servers yes Dead Island being one of them. How long though before this Pay To Win/Play catches on to more groups? After it catches on it will be worse then a virus and will eat up the game. If they cant pay the bills they should start shutting down servers. I have looked at the BI list for those permitted to raise funds this way over several days. CCG is not on that list at all!!! They are the great Ape that thinks they can not be touched. I for one want to see them brought back down. I have tried their servers, they are rude and useless over there. Now you pay to get in the server but then you wait and wait. There is nothing that says once you Pay that you will get to Play. You just hope that you will. If you buy a game from Steam you know they are a registered business and they will provide what you paid for. CCG is just a bunch of tech nerds running servers.

[Sgt Smash]

Originally posted by Too-DAMN-Much:

Originally posted by Dawg711:

If the shoe fits..........If they did not have what 25-50 servers their bills would be so much lower. Wonder if they are not also the people in charge in Washington...........LMAO

credit card gaming is a name that CCG earned, hope they're proud of it, but at the same time at least they're not 100% pay to win like they used to be with arma 2 mods $15 "ultimate subscriber" package for that lets you spawn out fully kitted minus a main weapon, sure the pistol it comes with is ♥♥♥♥ and barely only useful for zombies, but hey, it's still pay to win.

i've heard of other ones that are pretty bad as well for exile servers, a thread i read proposed "vehicle insurance" basically free replacement vehicle anytime you lose any of your vehicles no questions asked for $5-$10 month, shockingly the people proposing this didn't really seem to understand what is pay to win about it either, in effect it's a service that allows you to suicide-bomb/kamikaze vehicles infinitely with no loss, oddly enough though if it was also available for ingame currency as well then i can't hardly say there's any problems with it, sure you can still play like a noob with reckless abandon, but at least it's not only the people who game primarily with their credit cards who have access to it.

[edit] also since you're apparently new to the CCG community, you have always had to ask a mod/admin to manually whitelist you once payment has been made, nothing's changed there. [/edit]

That vehicle insurance crap has been around since A2 epoch

[Scooby Doo]

Well I think it is one thing for you to offer me perks for donation. This gives me a choice, and if all servers were allowed that like in A2 that would be fine. Charging me to play on your server.....Specially at $10 a head with their servers allowing for so many. That is just wrong, smart on their part but wrong.
I wont lie I dont like CCG however I really dont like what they are doing. So I am going to take the next 2 months to gather support to put a stop to charging people for the honor of playing on a server. At least with ingame perks you can still play why you wait. This Pay to get in......that means I give my money and well with time zone differences I may never recieve what I paid for. This could really hold true to someone that works a lot. A teen that has more than gaming going on, maybe you pay for this and then your parents call you to dinner. You can hold them off for a few minutes but we already seen one post of someone paying and getting nothing. Then to find out it is from a group that is NOT suppose to do it.

[Dj Otacon]

Unless you are dumb or you dont know what are you talking abount the server monetization is optional and only for vanilla servers.

There's no fee for optional perks or someting related.

This is only a measure to help the server cost, not for perks or any help into the game.

All the money billing for "perks" or "helps" ingame are forbiden and they are illegal.

Try read the post of bis first before start an idiotic rant:

https://www.bistudio.com/monetization

[Sgt. Pepper]

I do not see what the issue is. If someone pays to run a server why shouldn't they have the right to charge people to play?

It may also help those hwo want to play the game by keeping the unwanted, team killers, children out

In any event if you do not want to pay play on a free server