Just place banner ads around the site to make up for it, 10$ ain’t THAT much anyway!
Or, if free STILL needs to exist after that: Still place the ads but make it so free people get unlimited objects! You could also make it so people who pay for Indie or higher get 0 ads!
I think most of us here would rather have an ad here and there, then to pay up.
And lastly, to be blunt, you’d probably make more money off the people who see/click ads then the like 10% of Flowlab users who buy a membership!
I also have one final idea: How about a NEW membership: Where if you pay some absurd amount of money: You get a lifetime membership which grants everything!
That would be pointless, everybody and their grandmother uses Adblock these days. If he built ads into the editor itself, that would be intrusive, and people would want to stop using it. You are right, though. $59 a year is less than $5 a month, which is $1.25 a week. It really isn’t that much. A lot of game developers sites go up to $1,000 or more a year. Don’t believe me? Check out Gamemaker Studio. It goes way above $1,000 a year. Flowlab is the cheapest game engine out there.
If you put in adds and gave free more privileges less people would pay for premium because there would be much less to gain, and people would complain about adds!!
I think it would be a better use of grazers time to instead continue improving the site, adding features, and trying to make it more widespread. He’s doing a great job as it is so I would love to see even more!
