Premier pricing and features.

[grue 1]

I was under the impression that the previously free features would remain free after the implementation of the premier membership. I just went to use the member database search for the first time in about 3 years, and while yes, I can still view it, I cannot search it in any useful way.

Hell, it even says here:

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Will we loose any of the FREE features?
Posted Tue Sep 07 2004

No! When we created the Premier Membership we made a conscious decision not to take anything away that is currently available for free. You can continue to enjoy Dropzone.com just as you always have without having to give us a penny. Premier Features are value-added features on top of what you have for free. Those additional features are worth something to you or they're not. We will grow our Premier Features but will at the same time continue to build cool new FREE features for all our members!

Just as a suggestion, you might wanna make a separate subscription available where you just get that. No little star, none of the other features, just the database search. I still don't like the idea of paying for something that was free, but if it's not an exorbitant amount of money, I'm not going to worry about it too much.

Alternatively, you could do something that might piss off some users, but has worked well on another forum I use. Lower the subscription cost, but make it more worthwhile. On that forum, you cannot have an avatar, your PMs are limited (maximum of 5 in your inbox), you cannot view user profiles, and you cannot search (I don't recommend this last. It's more trouble than it's worth because of amazing reposts). When your subscription expires, your avatar remains, however. Because of this setup, a certain amount of elitism has evolved however, and "no-avs" are given less respect because they don't support the site.

When subscribing, you have the choice of with ads or without ads. With ads, a 1 month subscription is $4.95, a 3 month is $9.95, a 6 month is $19.95, and a year is $29.95.

Without ads, it's $5.50, $14.50, $29.50 and $49.50 respectively.

Also offered is the ability to have search and PM increases only, without the avatar, etc, for $5.75/3mo, or $15.75/yr. This could work as the "user database search" subscription.

But then again, I'm a broke-ass college kid, so maybe my views are different than most.

cavete terrae.

[PhreeZone 20]

The User search had actually gone offline for a while (Sometime in early 2004 or late 2003) . When it was reintroduced after the merging of the profiles (we used to have seperate profiles for the fourms then the rest of the site) it was introduced in the Premiere member package.

In the really old days there was'nt even searching and you had to pull up members by state.

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[grue 1]

I think I may remember viewing by state, actually. Might have been before I actually joined though, I can't recall. THat was a looong time ago.

cavete terrae.

[sangiro 26]

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I think I may remember viewing by state,

Nope, you never had that. The current free search feature is exactly the same one you had the day the Premier Membership launched.

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Sangiro

[skydiverek 63]

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I think I may remember viewing by state,

Nope, you never had that. The current free search feature is exactly the same one you had the day the Premier Membership launched.

But more than one day before Premiere membership was introduced I WAS able to search users by country (for free, of course). Can we have at least that back

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