-TARBY-
18-08-2002, 09:32 AM
This may bore some of you, if it does I apologise but I need you all to understand what I am going to be talking about.
As you all know we moved to BarrysWorld after 2 years with Gameplay.
Barrysworld have been perfect hosts. They leave us to do basically what we want and don’t interfere..
I believe it has been a very good time for us.
Barrysworld are one of the last of the original GSP's to still be offering cost free online gaming. Yes, they offer ‘rentable’ servers and enhanced services, but I am sure that doesn’t pay all the bills!
BW are lucky that they are backed by Electronics Boutique. EB seem to appreciate the value of being able to offer shoppers online gaming when they buy a compatible game.
BW have launched the beginning of their new service. Emails were sent out to BW account holders last week.
This is the mail
Read it carefully and then follow on my comments at the bottom before you pass judgement or hit that 'reply' button.
BarrysWorld Subscriptions
=========================
It’s been a long time in coming, but it’s finally here and there’s a lot in it! It’s also at a price that might take you by surprise…
It’s £24 a year. That’s the equivalent of £2 a month! It’s even cheaper for GAME Reward card holders – only £12 a year for a subscription.
We’ve done our homework. As well as the costs of running such a service, we’ve paid attention to what Gamers actually want and how much they’d be willing to pay for it.
It had to be more than just a bunch of game servers, and it also had to be a single annual payment, not a monthly payment. We think we’ve achieved our goal - providing a feature packed service at a price gamers can not only afford, but would be willing to pay for without feeling exploited.
For instance, our Bookable server service is worth the asking price on its own when compared to the cost of alternatives. And the same applies to our web hosting deal, especially as MySQL is included as standard now. The few people who we've shown this to already say it would be worth it for the Bookable server access alone, which makes us think we've got the pricing in the right area.
Here’s an outline of the complete service:
Basic Free Membership
---------------------
Use our Forums
Create Players and Teams and use our recruitment service
Join and play in our Leagues
Play on our Bookable servers (not book though, only subscribers can book from now on. We’ll honour all bookings already made though)
Access the BarryServers Clan Servers pages (our Clan Servers are NOT part of our subscription package)
Access most of our website and associated sites, including our Gaming News
Speed Limited (max 12kb/sec) & number of clients limited access to our FTP Server on a new address, ftp://freeftp.barrysworld.com
Existing customers can keep their @barrysworld.com email address for free (that is, all those who signed up with us before we changed to a subscription system)
Install and use BarryBar, our purpose built IE toolbar. Some features are for subscribers only. BarryBrowser comes included, but again its usage is limited for non-subscribers. However, it does list all our servers in a nice and easy interface.
Full Subscriber Membership
--------------------------
For just £24 a year (and half price for GAME Reward Card Holders) you get everything that’s listed below, as well as all free Membership services listed above.
Access to our huge array of “Public” Game Servers. With your Subscriptions coming in, we’ll be better placed to support new games and mods in the future too
Booking time on our Bookable servers
Faster access (64kb/sec) to our FTP server via ftp.barrysworld.com
Special FTP server for customers whose ISP directly peers with us. ukftp.barrysworld.com has a speed limit of 512kb/sec!
A BarrysWorld Email address, accessible via POP3 or via our webmail service. BarrysWorld email also has spam tagging, enabling you to easily filter spam
BarryBar, our purpose built IE toolbar including unrestricted use of BarryBrowser, our web based server browser and BarryLobby, our Peer to Peer gaming client
Stay logged on in the easiest way possible with BarryLogon. A small simple to use Windows task tray program that keeps you logged on without hassle. Non Windows users can use our Website logon service.
Free extras for Subscribers whilst stocks last
----------------------------------------------
Stocks are pretty large, but not a bottomless pit. As the amount of subscriptions increase we can upgrade these services:
Web Hosting
-----------
Single web address
20Mb disk space
3 GByte bandwidth a month (100MB a day)
1 MySQL database, stored within their quota limit of 20Mb and managed only by PHPMyAdmin
SSI Support
PHP (Version 4 only)
FTP only access to your hosting space
Personal Forums (coming soon, they’re not quite ready)
---------------
Set up and run a single forum via a web interface. No more messing around with web code and databases, use our forum system instead. Private Forum? No problem, slap a password on it too. It won’t appear on the list of our own forums, but is ideal for use within your hosted site.
And Finally
-----------
We think we are offering a quality package at a price that does not present a barrier in itself. With your help we can make online gaming a more stable environment with better quality services.
Full details and a simple subscription signup page are here:
http://www.barrysworld.com/subs/
Please, support us and subscribe!
Ben Lawton & Tony Covelli
aka TedTheDog & DBs
BarrysWorld Co-Founders
Now to start, this does not directly affect us. It may do in the future but not at present.
I don’t know how many of you are signed up to BarrysWorld with regard to having a gaming account (free) ?
I have been talking to BW about how we bring the HLCCL closer to BW.
What I am requesting you do is that you sign up as a BarrysWorld user. This will give BW an appreciation of how big we are and gives me more to say when I get into conversation about 'paying to play etc'.
It doesn’t take long and I need it done.
CLICK HERE FOR INFO (http://www.barrysworld.com/newbie/BarrysWorld.asp)
REGISTER FOR FREE HERE (http://www.barrysworld.com/Membership/Reg/UserRegTabForm.asp)
Please also make sure you fully understand the new subscriptions offered before posting in here..
Apart from that I will be sending a mass forum email to all users pointing them to this post.
I want views on this, I want to know what people outside of the UK think about it too.
Tarbs
As you all know we moved to BarrysWorld after 2 years with Gameplay.
Barrysworld have been perfect hosts. They leave us to do basically what we want and don’t interfere..
I believe it has been a very good time for us.
Barrysworld are one of the last of the original GSP's to still be offering cost free online gaming. Yes, they offer ‘rentable’ servers and enhanced services, but I am sure that doesn’t pay all the bills!
BW are lucky that they are backed by Electronics Boutique. EB seem to appreciate the value of being able to offer shoppers online gaming when they buy a compatible game.
BW have launched the beginning of their new service. Emails were sent out to BW account holders last week.
This is the mail
Read it carefully and then follow on my comments at the bottom before you pass judgement or hit that 'reply' button.
BarrysWorld Subscriptions
=========================
It’s been a long time in coming, but it’s finally here and there’s a lot in it! It’s also at a price that might take you by surprise…
It’s £24 a year. That’s the equivalent of £2 a month! It’s even cheaper for GAME Reward card holders – only £12 a year for a subscription.
We’ve done our homework. As well as the costs of running such a service, we’ve paid attention to what Gamers actually want and how much they’d be willing to pay for it.
It had to be more than just a bunch of game servers, and it also had to be a single annual payment, not a monthly payment. We think we’ve achieved our goal - providing a feature packed service at a price gamers can not only afford, but would be willing to pay for without feeling exploited.
For instance, our Bookable server service is worth the asking price on its own when compared to the cost of alternatives. And the same applies to our web hosting deal, especially as MySQL is included as standard now. The few people who we've shown this to already say it would be worth it for the Bookable server access alone, which makes us think we've got the pricing in the right area.
Here’s an outline of the complete service:
Basic Free Membership
---------------------
Use our Forums
Create Players and Teams and use our recruitment service
Join and play in our Leagues
Play on our Bookable servers (not book though, only subscribers can book from now on. We’ll honour all bookings already made though)
Access the BarryServers Clan Servers pages (our Clan Servers are NOT part of our subscription package)
Access most of our website and associated sites, including our Gaming News
Speed Limited (max 12kb/sec) & number of clients limited access to our FTP Server on a new address, ftp://freeftp.barrysworld.com
Existing customers can keep their @barrysworld.com email address for free (that is, all those who signed up with us before we changed to a subscription system)
Install and use BarryBar, our purpose built IE toolbar. Some features are for subscribers only. BarryBrowser comes included, but again its usage is limited for non-subscribers. However, it does list all our servers in a nice and easy interface.
Full Subscriber Membership
--------------------------
For just £24 a year (and half price for GAME Reward Card Holders) you get everything that’s listed below, as well as all free Membership services listed above.
Access to our huge array of “Public” Game Servers. With your Subscriptions coming in, we’ll be better placed to support new games and mods in the future too
Booking time on our Bookable servers
Faster access (64kb/sec) to our FTP server via ftp.barrysworld.com
Special FTP server for customers whose ISP directly peers with us. ukftp.barrysworld.com has a speed limit of 512kb/sec!
A BarrysWorld Email address, accessible via POP3 or via our webmail service. BarrysWorld email also has spam tagging, enabling you to easily filter spam
BarryBar, our purpose built IE toolbar including unrestricted use of BarryBrowser, our web based server browser and BarryLobby, our Peer to Peer gaming client
Stay logged on in the easiest way possible with BarryLogon. A small simple to use Windows task tray program that keeps you logged on without hassle. Non Windows users can use our Website logon service.
Free extras for Subscribers whilst stocks last
----------------------------------------------
Stocks are pretty large, but not a bottomless pit. As the amount of subscriptions increase we can upgrade these services:
Web Hosting
-----------
Single web address
20Mb disk space
3 GByte bandwidth a month (100MB a day)
1 MySQL database, stored within their quota limit of 20Mb and managed only by PHPMyAdmin
SSI Support
PHP (Version 4 only)
FTP only access to your hosting space
Personal Forums (coming soon, they’re not quite ready)
---------------
Set up and run a single forum via a web interface. No more messing around with web code and databases, use our forum system instead. Private Forum? No problem, slap a password on it too. It won’t appear on the list of our own forums, but is ideal for use within your hosted site.
And Finally
-----------
We think we are offering a quality package at a price that does not present a barrier in itself. With your help we can make online gaming a more stable environment with better quality services.
Full details and a simple subscription signup page are here:
http://www.barrysworld.com/subs/
Please, support us and subscribe!
Ben Lawton & Tony Covelli
aka TedTheDog & DBs
BarrysWorld Co-Founders
Now to start, this does not directly affect us. It may do in the future but not at present.
I don’t know how many of you are signed up to BarrysWorld with regard to having a gaming account (free) ?
I have been talking to BW about how we bring the HLCCL closer to BW.
What I am requesting you do is that you sign up as a BarrysWorld user. This will give BW an appreciation of how big we are and gives me more to say when I get into conversation about 'paying to play etc'.
It doesn’t take long and I need it done.
CLICK HERE FOR INFO (http://www.barrysworld.com/newbie/BarrysWorld.asp)
REGISTER FOR FREE HERE (http://www.barrysworld.com/Membership/Reg/UserRegTabForm.asp)
Please also make sure you fully understand the new subscriptions offered before posting in here..
Apart from that I will be sending a mass forum email to all users pointing them to this post.
I want views on this, I want to know what people outside of the UK think about it too.
Tarbs