EA 2, Dank Memer Edition
Why we decided to sell lootboxes
Hiya, Melmsie here. I work full time on Dank Memer, and it pays most of my bills and buys diapers for my newborn baby.
Patreon has been great for paying for server costs, and generating a little income. The problem is, lots of people don’t care about most of the donor perks, they just care about the lootboxes that came with them. So we decided we’d sell them directly, instead of having to maintain a monthly donation to get them.
While we understand some people see this as “p2w” and being “a sellout”, this is a mostly free bot that has been giving mostly free features for over 2 years now. At this point we have 4 devs being paid to work on the bot, with the idea that we’ll expand in the future.
For those of you who are concerned that this makes the bot P2W, let me address what we’re doing to prevent that.
- We aren’t selling direct coins. Without this, people can’t just buy millions of coins to be infinitely rich.
- We’re going to start doing a ton of weekly giveaways for lootboxes on reddit and twitter, for those who aren’t able/willing to purchase any.
- People who buy lootboxes, are technically at less of an advantage than monthly donors. There are no shields you can buy, no multiplier you get automatically, and you can have all your coins stolen from you in a heartbeat.
We understand all the concern we’re sure to get, but we have no intention on doing more than we need to for an income for our developers. And as always, our base features will always be free. That being said…
Music is going to be free bot-wide coming in the next few weeks. It will no longer be tied to premium servers, as we wanted to give everyone the dank memer music experience, so you don’t have to have any other stinky music bots on your server.
We’d be more than willing to hear your thoughts and concerns and ideas as far as the lootboxes go if you’d like to tweet at us (@dankmemerbot), or post on our subreddit (/r/dankmemer).
Have a great day, meme on
