07-01-2011, 09:46 AM
(07-01-2011, 09:41 AM)JoeGremel Wrote: It also should be purchasable like 2 dollar= # Buildism credits.
I wouldn't be so sure that would be practical or entirely beneficial:
- Payment is hard. You can jump through a billion hoops to get certified to actually take credit cards, where you're losing trust anyway, or use a vendor like PayPal or Google Checkout, who charge quite a bit of commission and will randomly suspend your account forever for having too much money (PayPal mostly in the latter)
- Payment can corrupt. When members who have paid to get Buildism credits have extra privileges that don't make sense - extra weight in polls or something like that - you have problems. See: Roblox.
- Payment isn't too great for the economy. It's nice to peg your currency to something else to make it a little more stable, but you can't be sure you're being fair. BlockCommunity uses a reward point system for referrals, with the RP then being translated into cash or badges. The cash offered, I must admit, isn't great; the exchange from Reward Points to Block Bux, or USD to Buildism credits, or any currency, is never static.