ROXY :: Donations opened!
Hi there everyone,
Times change, and in time of economic problems, it's now starting to get back to us.
In the past few months we saw a great increase in the online user count for Roxy (and Fury for that matter). This is a great development, and a great achievent for us - the owners - as well as the players.
However, apart from the happiness we are getting from all these players, they are also presenting us with a HUGE server bill. In the past we decided to purchase the server ourselves so we'd no longer have anymore monthly fees, traffic excluded. Now with the online user count that we are realizing, the bandwith-usage went up to such a level that it is impossible for us to just 'fund' it from our pockets. Don't get us wrong, more people are better for us and the community, however with the traffic exploding exponentially, there is just no way that we can cover this amount of traffic anymore. The paid services that we are providing are just not 'doing it', and we have decided that if we want to guarantee the life of Roxy, we need to make a change, for good and for bad.
Since people like to hear numbers (and otherwise start flaming), here are the costs:
~ Monthly upkeep server : €135,00 EUR
~ Monthly costs for our DLL license : €75,00 EUR
~ Monthly Maintenance costs network / server: €45,00 EUR
~ Traffic 42 mbit (burstable full duplex 1 GBIT): 35 x 42 = €1470 EUR
~ TOTAL: €1725 EUR month (ex 19,00% VAT
€1725,00 EUR is a lot of money, for us and for everyone, and therefor we have dcided that NOW is the time to change the way we run our server - by opening up donations to cover for the server bill. We simply cannot guarantee continuity without this move.
We have decided to open up additional donations and they can be found at donations.tfn.gr.
Click here to go to the donation shop (!)
We have chosen to use the 'old' roxy online shop, so that we'll not be disturbing the peace on the server in stead of selling full s-grade gear, which is unacceptable.
Donation - Starting Event
Since we want people to see this as a positive step forwards, we have decided to give a 25% bonus to donators who decide to send us a donation. Quite litterly this will mean the following:
Example:
You buy 1x S-grade weapon recipe = €60,00 EUR
You buy 1x S-grade armor recipe = € 40,00 EUR
TOTAL: € 100,00 EUR
25% bonus = 125,00 EUR. You will email
dukegr@gmail.com as usual, and tell him what item you want for the 'extra' 25 euro that you have been credited with (selected from the list on donations.tfn.gr.
We hope you can all understand this move, it's either opening up additional donations, or closing the server all together...!
Regards,
DukeGr