Ask a Dev? Pay a Dev! (ADPD Program)

[Agmar]

Do you really want your question/suggestion/rant responded to by a developer?????

Using ADPD, the player creates their post (complying with forum posting policies of course) and deposits $20.
Clapfoot promises to take the money and have a developer spend up to ten minutes of their time reading and responding to the game related post.
Responses guaranteed within three business days of posting.

CAVEATS
1. No more than fifty (50) daily queries accepted.
That keeps the answering time committed by each developer down to an hour (six questions), max.
Clapfoot may expand that at a later date at their discretion.

2. Clapfoot picks the developer responding, not you.
The one you wanted may be on vacation, fired, already has too many queries, or just not in the mood.

3. Clapfoot decides if the question warrants response, not you.
If you deposit two sawbucks to ask who will win the world series, you probably won't get an answer.

4. No refunds.
No appeals.
Ya don't like the response provided?
Tough.

Considerations

1. Submitters should phrase their question for a short quick response.
Clapfoot promises a MAXIMUM of ten minutes devoted to your query (reading, consideration, responding).
Expecting a ten page reply is just setting yourself up for disappointment.

2. Possible Workflow
a. Person submits their query and deposits $20.00.
b. At the start of each business day, manager reviews the questions for appropriateness.
Those not acceptable are deleted. Clapfoot keeps the money.
c. Each accepted query goes into a pool for the developers to look at.
d. At the start of business each day, developers select which ones they want to address.
e. Any remaining (after two business days from receipt) queries get randomly assigned to a developer.
f. Developers work on their questions at the START of their business day. That way, they are not interrupted during the remainder of their work day.

3. If the program has a high demand for a prolonged period, Clapfoot may expand the number of queries allowed per day.
As an example, with 50 queries a day, that is enough hours (and funds [$1000/day]) to hire another developer or two. That in turn would allow an additional six questions per day per extra developer.

So now is your chance to pony up two sawbucks and await with glee the response to :


"dl;fjkal;dfjiee kouoiu dl ldjflasdjf.
Am I right?"

Just don't be too disappointed with an answer along the lines of "WTF?"

[Articulate Llama]

My knee jerk reaction to this is wth! But seeing as I am not a 16 year old kid anymore and have my own job and income I know what goes into "working to live".

To the developers, this is their job, their income and every amount of time spent on their projects is them working at their jobs, so it seems reasonable that they be paid for doing it.

As long as questions are actually answered for the fee I think it is a great way for adult gamers to actually get some of the info they themselves would like about the game.

I hope this works out for the devs, it seems like a good idea after getting over the intial beaten and whipped consumer reaction we all are bound to have.

[Agmar]

ZenLegiticus の投稿を引用：

As long as questions are actually answered for the fee I think it is a great way for adult gamers to actually get some of the info they themselves would like about the game.

That is the thing though, 'answering the question'.
It requires that both the questioner and responder have realistic expectations.

With only ten minutes, there ain't a lot of time to make a detailed response to a pithy inquiry.
So for a reasonable reply, the questions themselves have to be short, to the point, and easily answered.

The issue I see is how many 'griefers' don't mind spending twenty bucks or more just to be salty.

I believe that there aren't that many.
I wonder if Clapfoot has the same view.