rpanons | [M] I climbed to dharamsala too

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I actually think your analogy is pretty tight.

However most cable companies offer basic cable. And it seems most people are expressing a desire for the equivalent of basic cable. They want a bit more than free (which would be non-cable-CW, CBS, NBC, etc) but they also don't wanna get Starz. And they really don't wanna shell out for HBO and 1000 channels of sports.

They just wanna watch hours of SVU marathons.

Flouncing out of rp is dumb as shit, and railing about something that DW has been pretty open about why they're not giving is getting silly, but the original idea itself isn't that ridiculous.

Having levels available isn't a dumb business plan (Obviously, as it's how DW works) and suggesting another level, one that has been highly successful on a sister site isn't that weird of a thing to do. It's not even asking them to change their business model, as that is, in fact, the business model they use.

Nowadays, basic cable still often gives you like 70+ channels though. Seldom does it give you only 20 or 30.

So following the analogy, basic cable and a basic paid account would be pretty comparable. Premium accounts would be like a higher level cable package, and adding on extra icons on top of that would be like your pay per view or whatever.

I think the analogy holds up pretty well too, but I think the point is that basic/entry level packages are generally not no-frills or minimal service packages. Basic, entry level packages are already a tier that delivers quite a lot. Businesses want to make it seem like people are getting lots of stuff for their money, and fewer and fewer places offer bare bones kind of options.

What people seem to be asking for is a real bare bones account level that's still higher than the free account level, and in a lot of ways it just doesn't make sense from the point of view of the provider. You get bare bones for free; if you pay, you get a load of stuff bundled together.

No, I agree, and as much as I would like it, their reasoning for not doing it makes total sense. It's not like they're just like "LALALA NOT LISTENING." They looked into it and explained why, right now, it's not feasible.

A lot of anons just seem to be acting like the idea in general is some out there concept and/or people wanting things for free and being entirely unreasonable. Which it isn't. It's not that big a logic leap to, without knowing the ends and outs of the business, to go "Well you are just like LJ in so many ways, and LJ has this very popular feature I like, so why don't you?"

[M] I climbed to dharamsala too

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