WHAT IS ARMA 3 MONETIZATION?
Anyone is allowed to monetize (https://www.bistudio.com/monetization) their Arma 3 server (e.g. selling server access, selling perks such as clothing etc) as long as they're registered, approved by B.I. and listed on https://www.bistudio.com/monetization/approved/arma3
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
ArmA 3 Communities rely on money to run. Without this money many community owners cannot afford the server fees they have to pay. Unfortunately, not many people donate just for the love of the server. Many purchase services provided by a community such as special perks or clothing, and some communities charge for server access in order to fund their server development. All this however is threatened by Bohemia potentially removing the monetization rules. The monetization permission has expired yesterday, on the 31st of January 2017 for all arma 3 servers (source: https://www.bistudio.com/monetization)
The statement from Bohemia's Legal Department on February 1st:
"We are still having discussions about monetization and if it expire or not. I will let you know as soon as we know results."
WHY MONETIZATION IS IMPORANT FOR ARMA3PROJECTLIFE.COM:
Many life servers began as a small community where some small time developers/modders put forward their time here and there, the owners of these communities often accepted donations for unfair perks. And most often then not very little of that money made it into the pockets of anyone but the owners. Our community (arma3projectlife.com) charges players with a one-time 29.99$ fee, an equal and fair contribution to maintain our development and server costs.
In 2013, Marek Španěl, the C.E.O. of Bohemia Interactive said the following during an interview:
Quote: "I think the next big thing could be opening up Arma 3 to paid user-made content. It’s great to see talented mod-makers pulling off amazing missions, add-ons and mods as free content, but if we manage to find some incentive for the best mod-makers to develop more content, I think we can raise the bar even higher. I want to push this effort in two distinct ways, and I consider these as a priority for next year. We are going to announce more specific details in the coming months." source: https://www.bistudio.com/blog/report-in-marek-span...
Bohemia Interactive’s monetization program was the direct cause of thousands of hours of intensive planning, coding, modeling, and other development projects which led to the ArmA 3 Project Life community coming to fruition. That money allowed us to pay industry professionals, experts in coding and modeling in particular, which acted as the direct catalyst to our recent explosion onto the marketplace, and excellent sales post-launch. Developing content is not cheap, our costs are over $5000 per month because our community utilizes professional content creators to create the modpack for our server. The monetization system allowed us to cover these costs and create AAA-quality content for our server.
Our development has now been brought to halt, and our development costs are running our savings
through. We are now in jeopardy of being put out of business.
IF YOU ARE A SERVER OWNER AFFECTED BY THIS ISSUE
Feel free to contact me ([email protected]), send me your statement and why monetization is important for your community, and I will add your statement to this petition. Together we stand stronger.
Please sign this petition and show your support for server monetization, together we can fight for the communities that we all love. This petition will be send to the Legal Department of Bohemia Interactive and to Bohemia Interactive representatives.
Updates
February 2, 2017
Bohemia Interactive cannot ignore this surge of pressure from the community anymore. We have built enough momentum to force their hand and demand they stop stalling on our livelihoods.
Reached 100 supporters
February 2, 2017
95 Comments
I bought Arma 3 solely for the modded life and mil sim communities. Let them get paid for bringing you business.
Seriously let the people who put the hours in at least get reimbursed for their hard work! These hard working people draw more business than the base game. They at least deserve to ask for compensation for their time and work if people are willing to do so.
Guaranteed ~33% of the current time communities will shut down when monetisation gets revoked! Running a small server cost atleast 50 USD and can run to 500 a month! serverowners (who usually are students) CANNOT afford such a price.
Servers like these bring in alot more arma 3 players that get interested in rp via sources like twitch and youtube. So end the end bohemia makes money as well from this, far more then they woud for people only playing base game and dlc servers.
Cos of the fee, arma 3 project life, has top quality development. It takes arma to a whole new level, that attracts people who usually wouldnt Play nor buy arma 3 - keep the Best DLC ever made open!!
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Yes keep the monetization because this people are doing a great job at making Arma 3 Servers really fun.
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WHAT IS ARMA 3 MONETIZATION?
Anyone is allowed to monetize (https://www.bistudio.com/monetization) their Arma 3 server (e.g. selling server access, selling perks such as clothing etc) as long as they're registered, approved by B.I. and listed on https://www.bistudio.com/monetization/approved/arma3
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
ArmA 3 Communities rely on money to run. Without this money many community owners cannot afford the server fees they have to pay. Unfortunately, not many people donate just for the love of the server. Many purchase services provided by a community such as special perks or clothing, and some communities charge for server access in order to fund their server development. All this however is threatened by Bohemia potentially removing the monetization rules. The monetization permission has expired yesterday, on the 31st of January 2017 for all arma 3 servers (source: https://www.bistudio.com/monetization)
The statement from Bohemia's Legal Department on February 1st:
"We are still having discussions about monetization and if it expire or not. I will let you know as soon as we know results."
WHY MONETIZATION IS IMPORANT FOR ARMA3PROJECTLIFE.COM:
Many life servers began as a small community where some small time developers/modders put forward their time here and there, the owners of these communities often accepted donations for unfair perks. And most often then not very little of that money made it into the pockets of anyone but the owners. Our community (arma3projectlife.com) charges players with a one-time 29.99$ fee, an equal and fair contribution to maintain our development and server costs.
In 2013, Marek Španěl, the C.E.O. of Bohemia Interactive said the following during an interview:
Quote: "I think the next big thing could be opening up Arma 3 to paid user-made content. It’s great to see talented mod-makers pulling off amazing missions, add-ons and mods as free content, but if we manage to find some incentive for the best mod-makers to develop more content, I think we can raise the bar even higher. I want to push this effort in two distinct ways, and I consider these as a priority for next year. We are going to announce more specific details in the coming months." source: https://www.bistudio.com/blog/report-in-marek-span...
Bohemia Interactive’s monetization program was the direct cause of thousands of hours of intensive planning, coding, modeling, and other development projects which led to the ArmA 3 Project Life community coming to fruition. That money allowed us to pay industry professionals, experts in coding and modeling in particular, which acted as the direct catalyst to our recent explosion onto the marketplace, and excellent sales post-launch. Developing content is not cheap, our costs are over $5000 per month because our community utilizes professional content creators to create the modpack for our server. The monetization system allowed us to cover these costs and create AAA-quality content for our server.
Our development has now been brought to halt, and our development costs are running our savings
through. We are now in jeopardy of being put out of business.
IF YOU ARE A SERVER OWNER AFFECTED BY THIS ISSUE
Feel free to contact me ([email protected]), send me your statement and why monetization is important for your community, and I will add your statement to this petition. Together we stand stronger.
Please sign this petition and show your support for server monetization, together we can fight for the communities that we all love. This petition will be send to the Legal Department of Bohemia Interactive and to Bohemia Interactive representatives.
Updates
February 2, 2017
Bohemia Interactive cannot ignore this surge of pressure from the community anymore. We have built enough momentum to force their hand and demand they stop stalling on our livelihoods.
Reached 100 supporters
February 2, 2017
95 Comments
As someone looking to host servers too, knowing the upkeep of the servers isn't necessarily cheap, support from these types of purchases(as long as they keep the gake balanced/approved by BI for authenticity), then I definitely support this petition.
I bought Arma 3 solely for the modded life and mil sim communities. Let them get paid for bringing you business.
Seriously let the people who put the hours in at least get reimbursed for their hard work! These hard working people draw more business than the base game. They at least deserve to ask for compensation for their time and work if people are willing to do so.
Guaranteed ~33% of the current time communities will shut down when monetisation gets revoked! Running a small server cost atleast 50 USD and can run to 500 a month! serverowners (who usually are students) CANNOT afford such a price.
Servers like these bring in alot more arma 3 players that get interested in rp via sources like twitch and youtube. So end the end bohemia makes money as well from this, far more then they woud for people only playing base game and dlc servers.
Cos of the fee, arma 3 project life, has top quality development. It takes arma to a whole new level, that attracts people who usually wouldnt Play nor buy arma 3 - keep the Best DLC ever made open!!
None
Yes keep the monetization because this people are doing a great job at making Arma 3 Servers really fun.
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As someone looking to host servers too, knowing the upkeep of the servers isn't necessarily cheap, support from these types of purchases(as long as they keep the gake balanced/approved by BI for authenticity), then I definitely support this petition.