Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby mdb1023 » Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:45 pm

Why are we even bothering? This has nothing to do with the P2P model.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby BasicFourLife » Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:51 pm

mdb1023 wrote:
ShuuIwamine wrote:
mdb1023 wrote:what rule changes are you referring to?


To list a few:

-You have to claim on the stand, or it's gamethrowing.
-You can no longer lie about your role if you are Town at any point during the game, or it's gamethrowing.
-Not counterclaiming is gamethrowing.


I don't believe any of those were ever officially implemented as rules but really it's a matter or principle- there's no reason not to claim on the stand if you're town because you will get lynched if you do. But this is completely irrelevant to the topic, anyways.

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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Soulshade55r » Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:06 am

Kirize12 wrote:
Flake wrote:
Kirize12 wrote:
I see no reason to complain. Devs gotta make money somehow.

Can this be stickied for everyone saying stuff about the price tag or microtransactions?

See above post. You're failing to understand why people are complaining about the price.

Since $5 is very cheap and people spend $60 on games like Overwatch, I doubt it’ll affect things much, if at all. I understand perfectly.


Yeah but better social deduction games that cost money :]
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Alicitzen » Fri Nov 09, 2018 2:48 am

wow how terrible that theres a game you gotta pay for
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby BasicFourLife » Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:18 pm

Only time will show what happens and right now the chances are not good.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby DuckGamer » Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:24 pm

But... those given referral codes can spam still
You should make sure you can track who gives the referral codes
So if people they give codes to spam, like most people they give codes to spam, they can be banned
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby ElderSivart » Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:19 pm

RevengeoftheRaccoon wrote:The Refer-a-Friend system will count just by purchasing the game now?

That and the person referred playing 10 games, I believe.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby ICECLIMBERS » Sun Nov 11, 2018 9:26 am

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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby djpumpumflood » Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:46 am

Not everyone can pay for a game, hence we play free games, not everyone has a means of payment also to pay for a game. Just saying, this will better the community, but it will not bring in new players.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby mdb1023 » Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:51 am

I mean, there will still be new players, just less of them, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Jerme » Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:52 am

djpumpumflood wrote:Not everyone can pay for a game, hence we play free games, not everyone has a means of payment also to pay for a game. Just saying, this will better the community, but it will not bring in new players.

I've seen that there are new players coming and having bought premium. Sure the amount of new players/playing accounts would increase with a f2p model, but the change was neccessary for multiple reasons.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby GoogleFeud » Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:18 pm

djpumpumflood wrote:Not everyone can pay for a game, hence we play free games, not everyone has a means of payment also to pay for a game. Just saying, this will better the community, but it will not bring in new players.


I'd rather less new players and no bots over players continually leaving because of bots.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby withercraft303 » Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:32 am

when is the refferal code thingy coming out??
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby FrigusAvis » Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:27 am

Is is possible Town of Salem would move back to Free To Play in future, after this bot incident subsides?
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Jerme » Mon Nov 26, 2018 3:00 am

FrigusAvis wrote:Is is possible Town of Salem would move back to Free To Play in future, after this bot incident subsides?

I do not think there are any plans to move back to f2p in the future.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Stouty69 » Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:52 pm

Achilles wrote:
jonnygreenwood wrote:If i never had paid a real money purchase, will i loose all my ranks, games, pets etc?


As long as you had at least 1 game played you are fine. Nothing will change for you other than higher quality games :)

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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby vampireguy12 » Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:07 am

this sucks :( make it free again or you'll never get new players
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Lukirous » Tue Nov 27, 2018 4:45 am

I was really excited when I heard about this game from a friend such a shame I can't play how annoying
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby FortenGrey » Tue Nov 27, 2018 5:35 am

Let's be honest. You just did this, because of Moonman. :D
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Jerme » Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:11 am

vampireguy12 wrote:this sucks :( make it free again or you'll never get new players

There are new players coming as far as I've seen, so your argument is invalid. Havign the game be p2p does help with improving the community, as people will think twice (or more) before breaking rules.
Lukirous wrote:I was really excited when I heard about this game from a friend such a shame I can't play how annoying

Well, you cannot play it for free, thats correct, yet the move to p2p was reasonable. The amount of money isn't that high to be unreachable for newer players to pay. Think about it, it can be worth it.
FortenGrey wrote:Let's be honest. You just did this, because of Moonman. :D

If you read the first post, then you'd know why the move happened. The caused chaos didn't come from nowhere.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Switchbladed » Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:47 pm

There's plenty more solutions to this that can solve the bot issue. If this isn't just an excuse to become a paid game and you were honestly forced into this, I'm happy for anyone @ BMG to get in touch with me and brainstorm some solutions the bots won't be able to get past. You can contact me via the email on my account (preferably) or otherwise I'll check DMs here occasionally.

I've built bot protection systems like this before and based on your thread, there's a ton of stuff you either haven't tried or haven't thought of.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby mdb1023 » Tue Nov 27, 2018 9:29 pm

Switchbladed wrote:There's plenty more solutions to this that can solve the bot issue. If this isn't just an excuse to become a paid game and you were honestly forced into this, I'm happy for anyone @ BMG to get in touch with me and brainstorm some solutions the bots won't be able to get past. You can contact me via the email on my account (preferably) or otherwise I'll check DMs here occasionally.

I've built bot protection systems like this before and based on your thread, there's a ton of stuff you either haven't tried or haven't thought of.


from what they've said, they don't have the resources for a lot of the solutions to the bot issue. They said that they consulted with security companies to try and find solutions and nothing they came up with that was doable for them worked.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby Flavorable » Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:25 am

FlameThrower032 wrote:I made an account for nothing.... great... just great.


Then maybe the friend that suggested the game to you should have mentioned it became pay to play.
Not to mention said friend can give you a referral code, you can play 5 games and if you like it, you can still buy the game.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby VoidRuler » Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:05 pm

I haven't posted on these forums in ages, I honestly feel bad for kind of just disappearing as I would have liked to have become closer to the people I've met here.

But I do still play the game occasionally and check on the news surrounding it. And I wanted to say that I'm honestly really glad for this change. I'm pretty sure I've said it a year or two ago but I was hoping the game would become paid-only, this will discourage people who dedicate themselves to gamethrowing/trolling, as I doubt they'd want to continuously pay $5 to do that. It used to bug me a lot when I only played Ranked. I don't know why people are upset, most people will still keep their accounts even if they haven't made any purchases, and being as it's only going to be a $5 game, it's not that big of a deal to pay for it, just like most games.
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Re: Town of Salem moves away from Free To Play

Postby bluetoasty » Wed Dec 05, 2018 7:36 pm

i'm confused. i played a lot and on this account about 6 months ago and its saying I just signed up. if things like <- continue i honestly have no interest in continuing to play TOS.
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