NIA, Please Consider This.
Niantic, before you make another potentially bad move in regards to Monetary gain for Ingress, consider this.
*An (OPTIONAL) Subscription Fee*
Yes, that's right, a Subscription Fee.
Hear me out for a second:
A lot of players are over the decisions being made to make Ingress profitable. Look, we all get it, Niantic is a massive company now and you guys need to remain profitable, I understand, a lot of us do, but the decisions being made regarding price hikes and charging for anomaly attendance right now is pushing people away from playing.
A subscription fee would be a great Re-occuring source of revenue for Ingress and would ease the pain of having to identify an appropriate income source.
How much should you charge for this? I say somewhere between $5USD - $10USD a month. Either give us no reward, or give us some sort of badge for funding the game we love.
Again, make this OPTIONAL, because even if not all players choose to subscribe to funding the game, that's still more money for you guys every month and less decisions that rub us dedicated agents the wrong way.
Take the money you receive from us who subscribe and polish Ingress, make sure the events are great, and maybe slightly lower prices in the store for other Agents, so that they can splurge on Frackers and FS Packs.
So, PLEASE, PRETTY PLEEEEASE, consider this? :)
Comments
$10 per month for some information-related service (like check how I moved during last travel on map) is acceptable for me.
However, consider that a Nintendo Switch Online membership is only $4 a month or $20 a year.
So you're suggesting Patreon?
I would feel a bit odd about using such a system to support a billion dollar company unless these funds were ring-fenced and aimed at a tangible reward, such as new staff being hired to for Ingress-only projects that enhance the game.
Nintendo also gets a cut from the actual game revenues so each game you buy puts a % of the receipts to Nintendo.
What if they revamped Intel and made it a better service and sold it as a perk for the subscription service? Keep the old crappy Intel around for Free players and give subscribers the more powerful, info rich Intel?
Four letters:
GDPR