How do I pitch these prices to new players?

Long time player. I love this game. I love our development team. I love our passionate community.

I have hyped this game to my friends for years, it is a meme in our groups that I'm still playing this old ass browser game and always trying to recruit them.

I swear up and down theres so much care put into the updates and expansions and its one of the few existing companies not bending me over to take my money because they listen to our (the player's) input.

I recently started a Group-Iron with my family, younger cousins who remember playing this with me when they were much younger. We just grinded F2p till everyone seemed comitted enough that we all got membership together and will continue our progress into membership.

A friend of mine who I've ranted about this game to for YEARS, created an account again after briefly playing some 10years ago because he saw how much fun my family was having connecting on this game.

These are "new" players I got reintroduced to playing based solely on my experience with this game I've loved so much.

YOU are killing any possibility of new players entering our game. How am I meant to pitch this dated Java looking game to anyone for the price its at??

I have to pay for membership on EVERY character I play. With an increase in price, I have to choose on maintaining 1 character. That GroupIron I just made? I guess I can no longer support membership on my main(s) as well.

You will LOSE memberships this way.

Make membership blanket the entire account, or lower your prices, because you are killing new players and old with unsustainable pricing decisions.

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