reking2 wrote:Make some special sales/discounts of the yearly membership, some % off. Just like in some special occasions. May convince a lot of people on the fence to go for it.
Great idea. Pay 2 months get 3rd for free once a year. Or 10-20% off when it's holidays (black friday deals anyone?). We use that a lot in my company and get tons of members when it's sale.
Or make a line of special support trophies (12 different every year and there will be a collect them all function included. the longer you stay meber the better one you get or the more you get).
Another idea is to add expansions/functionality to existing games and have only members gain access when they create a game. There are lots of games out there that could use some tweaking and people have offered many solutions on the forums already. For example add extra expansions to carcasonne and many other games, add jokers to machiavelli etc. Non paying members do not need access to ANY expansion. All games can be played without them, but people always want to have them. This would see the membership go up.
What if a member always had the first move (or choice for that?). It could be random if 2 or more were playing together.
Another useful feature is that when you create/join a room as member it should be on the top. Period. Perhaps it could even be that when you arent a member and, for example, Lost cities is not among the games you play but a memeber creates a room for it, 1-3 such game(s) would pop up as first rooms anyways, regardless if you play them or not. It would encourage all players to play more games and memebership since everyone wants their game to pop up in the top now and then.