I think I prefer certain items to stay exclusive to people who purchase certain memberships. Otherwise, to me, that kind of defeats the purpose of the “exclusive” items that VFK advertises with every membership release. If anyone can get their hands on any membership item through trading, I don’t really see how that makes anything exclusive anymore, and then the benefits of purchasing memberships diminish drastically.
As far as I remember, the Beta Founder membership was only available for 48 hours. It was intended to be very limited and special to those who chose to “invest” in the game at its very early stages. It doesn’t really seem so special to me anymore if it become available to all, over a decade later.
Just my two cents! Coming from someone who wasn’t a beta founder.
I think it should be tradable, Its already exclusive i have not seen many of them around. What if everyone who has the room quits then that room will stay in their account forever and the room will be lost forever. If you don't want to trade it thats fine but it would be a good option i personally joined late in the game and it would be nice to have one of these that i didn't get the opportunity to get! :)
Good to see the other side of it but in my opinion, even if it becomes tradable it still maintains its exclusivity because there are very few of them left around. You can also still feel proud of yourself for supporting VFK in its early stages even with the room becoming tradable. It’s not like there will be 10 of them on the popular list all of a sudden. A lot of people didn’t get the opportunity to support VFK with the membership because of being too young back then to purchase a membership or not finding out about the game until after. All memberships that come out allow items to be traded. This is no different. Any membership we purchase now also supports the game. Especially when VFK wasn’t very active a few years ago, those who bought the dragon memberships and so on supported VFK. Should those items be made non-tradable?
It’s really easy, make the room tradable and those who don’t want to trade it don’t have to. I know you @Tomorrow love your Area 51 room and feel very close to it and want to use it as a symbol to show you are one of the early players but I think you can still do that and allow other beta founder members to trade theirs if they wish.
I don’t see why other beta founder members shouldn’t be allowed to trade their guest room when they also supported VFK.
I am wondering what happened to the behind the scenes vfk dvd. I’ve always been intriguied to see the process of how game companies make their games. I also think it’s weird they were going to give autographed merchandise, but never did.
As for the room, I could agree with either side, (so I don’t know which side to take).
I’ve always thought it’s cool when games have status items signifying a player was a part of an event or sign up date (ex. Area 51 room). However, I always thought a better way to give players this status is to put a “Beta Day 1” Golden badge above their lanyard on their profile (like vmk). Not to say vfk has to copy vmk, but it’s just a good idea (and other games have sign up date badges too).
I and other beta players suggested this many times, but vfk just gave pins (and oddly gave “beta day 1” loot to players that signed up within the first year?).
I always felt the way they handled the newer “beta day 1” loot was extremely pointless since people who signed up as far as a year after the first day of vfk could walk around as if they’ve been here since day 1. If something says “Beta Day 1”, it should be for people that were online day 1... it doesn’t say “Beta YEAR 1”...
After scrutinizing how they’ve handled beta status, the entire thing is a mess. People who aren’t beta day 1 players have beta gear, so who even cares at this point if beta founders are able to trade their room? I feel the New Beta gear defeated the purpose of “beta day 1”.
When beginning this post, I wasn’t sure what to think; now after thinking of how vfk has handled beta status, it’s all over the place.
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More rooms:
Red Sydney Apartment
Gold Stamp Pool Rooms
Original Football Stadium w/ Food Bar
Mine Tunnel Entrance
As far as I remember, the Beta Founder membership was only available for 48 hours. It was intended to be very limited and special to those who chose to “invest” in the game at its very early stages. It doesn’t really seem so special to me anymore if it become available to all, over a decade later.
Just my two cents! Coming from someone who wasn’t a beta founder.
It’s really easy, make the room tradable and those who don’t want to trade it don’t have to. I know you @Tomorrow love your Area 51 room and feel very close to it and want to use it as a symbol to show you are one of the early players but I think you can still do that and allow other beta founder members to trade theirs if they wish.
I don’t see why other beta founder members shouldn’t be allowed to trade their guest room when they also supported VFK.
As for the room, I could agree with either side, (so I don’t know which side to take).
I’ve always thought it’s cool when games have status items signifying a player was a part of an event or sign up date (ex. Area 51 room). However, I always thought a better way to give players this status is to put a “Beta Day 1” Golden badge above their lanyard on their profile (like vmk). Not to say vfk has to copy vmk, but it’s just a good idea (and other games have sign up date badges too).
I and other beta players suggested this many times, but vfk just gave pins (and oddly gave “beta day 1” loot to players that signed up within the first year?).
I always felt the way they handled the newer “beta day 1” loot was extremely pointless since people who signed up as far as a year after the first day of vfk could walk around as if they’ve been here since day 1. If something says “Beta Day 1”, it should be for people that were online day 1... it doesn’t say “Beta YEAR 1”...
After scrutinizing how they’ve handled beta status, the entire thing is a mess. People who aren’t beta day 1 players have beta gear, so who even cares at this point if beta founders are able to trade their room? I feel the New Beta gear defeated the purpose of “beta day 1”.
When beginning this post, I wasn’t sure what to think; now after thinking of how vfk has handled beta status, it’s all over the place.