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Honesty is a hard thing to talk about. But, it also allows progress and development. This development can either be for the greater good, the worse or is simply geared for the select few. So, what is a fact? A fact is something that can be repeated, a million times and will always end with the same result. This game is now pay to play. Fact. My evidence is simple. Earlier today, I was able to lay witness to a Gengar that was sold for 600k. This occurred about 8:30 pm central standard time. I thought to myself, how would an individual freely have 600k to throw away? Especially in a game where I can quickly assess that 30-50k can be made on victory road, just before the exit to the Elite 4, within 4-5 hours of solid gameplay. I currently have membership. (TAKE NOTE: This timeframe is DOUBLED for anyone without membership) Membership Allows: https://gyazo.com/de571953be46996d62c7dde51489ba9d This is the reason I can make this amount of money in that amount of time. This process has been easy to repeat, as I have done so every day for a week just before I beat the Original Elite 4. I then thought to myself, how much time would I have to spend to get 600k? Well, 600/50 is 12, that is 12 days. For all of you confused, that's 600k, divided by 50k, resulting in 12 days to accomplish.(TAKE NOTE: This timeframe is DOUBLED for anyone without membership) If you make 30k a day, that is 20 days of gametime. I then thought to myself, well how can I do that in 2 days? Or even 1? This game currently allows you to purchase Membership or 100 coins in game with in game currency. Membership goes for around 175k to 200k. Suddenly, I can make 200k with 15 Dollars. With 15 dollars, that is 3 purchases of membership and selling it 3 times to other users for a grand total of 600k. If sold at 175k, that is selling membership 4 times. With this being said, I can easily spend 30 dollars a month on this game, and be able to purchase anyone's pokemon from the trade channel that I so choose. I can outbid anyone who even almost attempts to outbid me. Further, I would also like to add this concept. Membership currently allows: https://gyazo.com/9ec3be4f3db312fc51c079e6c20386d4 https://gyazo.com/de571953be46996d62c7dde51489ba9d What this means, is that I can spend 1 week playing this game, anyone who does not pay for membership will spend 2 weeks doing so, now that does not sound like much return effort right? This is true, however, once you start increasing this amount, it really is disheartening. My 6 months of effort, is your years worth of effort if you do not have membership. My 1 year of effort, will be your 2 years of effort if you do not have membership. My 3 years of effort will take you 6 years to accomplish. I will give you one more value, my 10 years of effort, will be your 20 years of effort if you never purchase membership. See, once you start increasing the values, it is incredibly eye opening and now incredibly disheartening to anyone who cannot afford membership. So, now that I have given everyone clear insight on how this game is pay to play. I am also a supervisor, as listed under my name, my manager explained to me once, and I will never forget this concept, but, he explained to me, that to be a good business man and really make it far. One should never point out a problem without also offering a solution. When a problem is pointed out, all your doing is showing yourself to be incompetent. Simply because, when someone is faced with a problem, their immediate reaction is protect themselves, just as anyone would, we are humans and that is in our nature, it is the single most true factor on why we even exist to this day. Without self preservation and a natural instinct to protect yourself(Deny, deflect, avoid responsibility) we would not be the most dominant thing on this planet nor would we have survived as a race/creature past a few years. I bring this up, because everyone who pays for membership will obviously offer reasons as to why I am incorrect, solely based on the reasons discussed in this paragraph. The solution? Remove membership and all the benefits it creates, as well as the +25% experience from the coin shop. What is the main issue that will stem from this other then the above listed benefits? A lack of funds for shane to continue running this game. So, obviously, This will be a hard concept to swallow. Unfortunately, this game was created by Nintendo, all rights to its contents are owned by another company and the only reason it exists here is due to a non profit agreement that Nintendo has in place to allow shane to have this game hosted on his server for us to play. I bring this up, because Nintendo wanted people like shane to struggle, making people financially struggle to do things like this creates the environment for people like shane to not continue with providing games like this. This is a strategic move by Nintendo to not allow people to freely play their creation which detours people from paying Nintendo money. So, back to the resolution on how shane can continue to host this game with a sudden lack of funds to do so provided by us. Pokémon revolution can provide alternatives for purchase, such as, costumes for your character, name creation for pokemon, renaming your character, hats for your character, they can turn off the ability to have your first pokemon behind you, and allow that option to be purchase-able, purchased game content, like other regions(you might say, wait, that is where it becomes illegal, unfortunately, pokemon revolution is already in violation of this agreement if one so chooses to construed the concept, being that with paid membership you do get content upon purchase, such as membership only pokemon), shoes for your character, clothes for your pokemon?, momentary access to special areas, server wide benefits such as purchased experience increase for everyone on the server(like someone donating 1 dollar for 1 hour of server wide experience increase), purchased guild/clan content(like removing the ability to have a clan image above your character in game and making it purchase-able for a guild to do so, setting a limit on the member count and making additional/increasing the member count by purchase.) I will stop here on the suggestions, but as discussed above, I feel required to offer a complete resolution. As it stands, all the online free to play pokemon games I have played, have 1 serious downfall. It honestly takes half a year to multiple years to obtain a team and level your pokemon just to make them viable for competition and even to progress through the game. The ONLY reason I play this online pokemon game is because it is relevantly easy to obtain the pokemon you want, and it only takes a week or so to level your team to competition status, EV's included. It can obviously take a whole lot longer to find the pokemon yourself. But this honestly only increases the timeframe by a few months or so realistically. As it stands, I can honestly play this game for the first time, beat the 4th gym, and then sit there and sell membership/coins, I can then simply purchase the pokemon I want from anyone as they offer it in trade, and within a few days, to a few weeks, beat anyone I play against. All because of Real Money. This can easily be stopped. But, then you have to ask yourself, is this game actually for non profit use? I will now post screenshots of what people pay per month to host a server. https://gyazo.com/09822adf9e2b72e9cd3e2efcc6975220 https://gyazo.com/515be880e090587ac4478835787b5f4f https://gyazo.com/96372d9fc629281714e4c3a0e9557179 https://gyazo.com/5f65a11f6c975610a3c874aba7a43e49 https://gyazo.com/401149e1d363ef66219ea8a1dfd2be33 Now, these are servers that are hosted by companies, cost ranges pretty far and apart. But what is huge to note is simple and is stated many times on the internet on thousands of forums. https://gyazo.com/0c5fadcdca429aa6218563fd0d2573fd If your hosting a game, on a server, it is insanely cheaper to own your own computer and and make that computer a server for your game. The cost to this setup depends on your internet provider. Currently at my cost, where I am located, enough bandwidth to cover 850 people will run me anywhere from 80$'s a month + 15$'s a month in electricity. That is 95$'s. So what our funds go to, is to reduce that 120$ cost (increasing due to whatever idea). I have given many ideas to reduce that monthly cost. I also think that many other ideas can be created to appropriate a reduction in cost to this monthly concept. What will be the best benefit under this concept if applied, is it will increase the staff's willingness to get creative, it will greatly increase the chances for people to be able to want to continue playing this game, for as long as they want without deterrence from the game itself, long lasting play from users will encourage each user with the capability to aide in the development of this game, it will slowly extract long time players from other online pokemon games. The environment as a whole will be beneficially to its players both immediately and overtime and for new users. I am also done applying anymore thought to this. :)

Everything you listed is exactly why I am playing this game above any other. 1. So much exp is given that its not a complete and absolute waist of my time. Not everyone wants to spend half a year developing a team of pokemon, its flat ridiculous. In case you think my math is incorrect, please take note that you stated it takes about a solid month to get 1 pokemon to lvl 100. Thats 6 months for a full team of lvl 100's. Ontop of this, if you take time into consideration for finding good pokemon, your looking at a year or 2 to even find a team(decent pokes) as well as leveling them up. This may be fun for some of you, but its a huge deterrence for anyone who actually values there time. Games like what you are describing only reward 40 year old men with NO life that live in their grandparents basement. Who else has the time? Children? Im sorry but your average childs attention span. Even at that, your average person playing who is an adult, has to go to work for a living in order to pay the bills necessary to even be playing in the first place(which almost doubles the playing time mentioned above to acheive what kids 17 and under are achieving as far as progress is concerned.). Im also going to mention the fact that with half the time spent, you can actually compete and be just as viable in REAL tournaments involved with the pokemon company and your achievements will reward you with real, physical and face to face praise by your peers and millions of others fans as well as your efforts being broadcasted on national television/internet channels. Which does not even come close to the rewards received on internet pokemon games such as this and the praise received by the 6 or so active people in your clan. 2 and 3 are covered by my above statement. Thank you for your time.

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Agreed, the opportunity wont last long!