Stormcrown Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I don't think it's fair that I have to get held up all the time while I'm trying to browse the site that I've paid for by all the people who are non paying members.Well to be perfectly honest, I don't think it's fair that someone should get super duper extra special treatment because they forked over a few dollars. You're promoting class warfare. Premium membership is supposed to be mostly about getting rid of the ads. You should consider yourself damn lucky you get a priority download queue out of the deal. A very arrogant statement here. And $5 USD a month isn't exactly "A few dollars". That equates to $60 a year. Spotify has a premium service for $5 or $10 a month. I knew someone would argue this point and its barely worth my time to make a counter-argument. If you don't have premium membership, then this doesn't affect you. It's the same idea of people protesting gay marriage when it doesn't directly affect them. Quite honestly, if you aren't purchasing the service, why do you care what the service entails? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted2547005User Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I don't think it's fair that I have to get held up all the time while I'm trying to browse the site that I've paid for by all the people who are non paying members.Well to be perfectly honest, I don't think it's fair that someone should get super duper extra special treatment because they forked over a few dollars. You're promoting class warfare. Premium membership is supposed to be mostly about getting rid of the ads. You should consider yourself damn lucky you get a priority download queue out of the deal. A very arrogant statement here. And $5 USD a month isn't exactly "A few dollars". That equates to $60 a year. Spotify has a premium service for $5 or $10 a month. I knew someone would argue this point and its barely worth my time to make a counter-argument. If you don't have premium membership, then this doesn't affect you. It's the same idea of people protesting gay marriage when it doesn't directly affect them. Quite honestly, if you aren't purchasing the service, why do you care what the service entails? I concur. I payed for a 6 month membership simply to be rid of the advertisements (some were getting a little - awkward) and to support this site since I probably won't be leaving it for a long while. I never assumed I wound get priority over everyone else and don't want such a thing. We make mods for free, so there is no reasoning in my line of thinking that someone like me who pays for a membership will get ahead of the rest who don't simply to have access to the free mods we all love. Either side of fence can call it unfair, it seems perfectly reasonable to me. I do and will enjoy the limited benefits of my membership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cespinoza77 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I also purchase a premium membership thinking that premium members had priority over non premium members my fault for not reading but common sense says other wise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrown Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Not sure how many of us think we are entitled. (Us = premium) I think we are saying, this should be a feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I tend to find people don't actually know how hard it is to fix these performance issues when 1 super powerful server isn't enough. Another server will cost £20,000 a year (so the equivalent of 500 lifetime premium members signing up each year, or over 8,000 monthly subscriptions, or 1,000 life time Premium Memberships if you think we now have 2 servers that cost £40,000 together), and that's for one site. To make matters worse, you can't just buy another super powerful server, plug it in next to the old one and have them both working on the same site. It doesn't work like that. I wish it did because that would be the easiest fix in the world. That's a "load balanced" solution and the price then sky-rockets even more to accommodate this complicated setup. This is what I am saving up for. We're very close to finishing our code overhaul of the sites now (the deadline I was given was this Friday, although it'll probably be next week). We then have to extensively test it and roll it out, but the overhaul should bring with it a lot more stability and performance from the sites. I'll be making a vlog about it soon, just not now, as I have a temperature of 101 and was up early this morning fixing the servers for you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrown Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Thanks for explaining Dark0ne. I was wondering how the system works, and quite honestly, if you could've done something for the premium members you probably would have. Not many sites offer as many features as you do for premium members, for such a low price. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatalmasterpiece Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Hope you get well soon, been under the weather my self. Looking forward to the new coding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphais Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Regardless, of the "Official" definition of Premium membership, I considered it my duty as support for a site that I use a great deal. I think that this site has a great many users consuming bandwidth and I wish more would contribute a small amount to its upkeep. What a fantastic site this would be if users gave a dollar or their equivalent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imiona Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Premium membership is supposed to be mostly about getting rid of the ads. I think its not that hard without Premium, Addblock anyone? I have rarly seen Ads before i went Premium. What i would really like to see as a Premium Member is an increase of Avatar Size (Scale and Datasize) :dance: But i have to agree that since Skyrim, the Forum really is a little "Sick" but this will go away in Time, as long the Downloadrate is stable, i am happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterfall Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 (edited) The admin response could have been a bit more diplomatic, because it essentially said "A functioning website is not a perk or condition of Premium membership." It should be a perk for any membership. (it's also not entirely correct, since a non-working link effectively denies access to premium servers.) I don't think they should solve this by re-allocating existing resources to Premium members, because then they would need to sell Premium memberships with "Get Premium, now including a website that works." That said, it's understandable that people paying for membership would be particularly annoyed by this. It's also obvious that Nexus is quite aware of the issue, and were caught off guard by the explosion of popularity compared to previous TES releases, and these things take time. Premium members can take some consolation knowing that any eventual solution will be due in part to their patronage. Edited February 19, 2012 by otterfall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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