So far we have received mainly positive comments from users. We also had people who were wondering about the future of World of Logs. and what WoL will become after the Beta phase has been passed.
Will the website still be quick enough as more and more users are going to make use of it. How are you going to cover the operational cost, since hosting a website cost money (servers, data traffic). Is there a way to support WoL, for example with accepting donations. Will there be premium accounts introduced to pay for the monthly expenses? How about the storage of raid reports?
Therefore, I would like to provide you with more information about how we would like to see WoL develop in the near future.
Our vision to create an online platform where World of Warcraft gamers can share, save and analyze their gaming performance conveniently, therefore our goal is to keep our website open for everybody and free of charge. In addition, in an ideal situation there would be unlimited data storage for everyone.
However, we are still in the evaluation and testing period to see whether our advertising income is able to cover the monthly costs. At the moment this is not enough at all. We have been trying out different ads companies lately with mixed success. Therefore, we will all have to wait and see how things develop.
There is a possibility that we will have to introduce premium accounts for users who require optimal performance and are willing to pay for the additional service. Moreover, acceptance of donations may be set up. All of this will require us to set up an administration and a lot of paper work, therefore we are hoping that the ads revenue will be enough.
About the website performance, I have no doubt that Maihem and Miles are able to handle the traffic stream when our website become more popular. Of course, there can be ups and downs during some periods.
For those who are wondering how you can help us, spread the word!
Feel free to comment here or post questions
Cheers,
Albert
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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I think premium accounts would be a good idea. It will always remain optional and you'll need the extra income. Plus, for the added value you are offering, people won't mind to pay! :)
ReplyDeleteOne question, will you support uploads 'after the fact'? For example, if I have old combatlogs that have been uploaded to wws/whatever, and want to upload them to you, is there any way of doing so?
ReplyDeleteI tried the 'open file' option in the client, which seemed to work (after I tweaked the jnlp, more info below), but after it parsed the file, I wasn't given an option to upload it anywhere.
The open file functionality by the way does not work with the settings in the current launch.jnlp. I had to change the j2se line to the following:
<j2se version="1.6.0+" max-heap-size="512m" />