Personally I think this cost increase is a way of sticking it to the subscribers so Stardock can make more money. The cost of Stardock creating 12 themes once a year and charging 10 dollars to every subscriber is just a way to for Stardock to make more money and doing what you think to keep us from objecting.
Lets say you have 10,000 (and that is a short estimate with member number hitting well over 3 million)
Thats 100,000 dollars just for the first 10 thousand subscribers. You have over 3,000,000 members but we know that a lot of them are not active so lets take a third of that and that leaves 1 million subscribers. At that amount that's 10,000,000 dollar increase in sales. But lets be generous and lets just say you have 10 percent of that. Thats 100,000 users and at 10 dollar increase for each subscription that gives you a 1 million dollar increase in sales. And all we get is for you to generate 12 skins per year. The lets say you have 12 or so guy back there who can make a decent skin, then all they have to do is each make 1 per year and then at my current inaccurate estimate that would be more than 83,000 dollars of guaranteed sales per skin. If I was a pro-skinner and was able to bet on sales like that... well.. lets just say I would burn the little rubber feet of my mouse in no time.
Anyways, that my humble opinion.
Anyways, that my humble opinion. What am I supposed to do if the 83,000 dollar skin doesn't suit my taste. You are in a sense forcing me to buy it. Can you guarantee that i will like and use it. Am I going to get what I paid for. You stated that you are giving away 12 skins per year but need to increase that subscription rate to pay for it.
Pricing Because we are now offering $60 in free skins a year, the pricing of the WinCustomize Subscription is changing. Effective immediately, a WinCustomize subscription costs $29.95 per year and you'll renew on a year-to-year basis (i.e. no more 2 year renewals). You will receive all the old benefits of a WC Subscription, only now for $10 extra you're getting $60 in skins.
