Game Coin Thoughts

Rhododendron · October 28, 2011

Someone spammed me this in chat, and while I disagree on the concept I thought I would share it with you! Since I like you...

A lot.

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Game-coin.com billing

Bill players on your game servers

What is Game-coin?

Game-coin.com is a service that enables you to bill players that play on your game servers by the minute. You can define exactly who is billed, when, and how much. For example, you can let players play 1 hour for free every day and bill them for extra time. Or, when your server is full you can

let in only paying players. Or, give paying players special privileges (VIP; coming soon).

How does it work?

For players:

Players create an account at Game-coin.com, add cash to their e-wallet using a credit card or Skrill account (SMS and phone billing coming soon), associate one or more Steam IDs with their account, define which game servers can bill them, and then connect to your game servers. Here are a few screenshots to illustrate this:

Player's balance & recent payments:

A payment details:

Player's Steam IDs (left), recent servers he played on (middle), and favorite servers (right). The player can allow your server to bill him in a

couple of clicks.

Players can also search for game server by name, and see their stats:

This is how the in-game menu looks like for players:

For you (game server owner):

On your part, you create an account at Game-coin.com, register your game servers, install our plugin on your servers and configure how you want to bill your players. When a player connects to your server, our plugin communicates with Game-coin and looks the player up by his Steam ID. If he?s registered and has allowed your server to bill him, then, depending on your billing settings, he?ll be billed by the minute. If he can?t be billed, he?ll be kicked from your server. Here's how your web panel looks like:

Your game servers:

Your upcoming payouts:

In-depth stats for each server you own:

How do I bill my players?

Currently you've got 3 options:

1. Trial time

You can allow players to play up to X hours/day for free, after which they're kicked, unless they have a Game-coin account and allow your server to bill them, in which case they can continue playing beyond the first X hours and be billed by the minute. That way new players can try out your server(s), and when they're "hooked" you bill them for extra gaming hours. You can apply the trial limit per server, across all of your servers, or

even across all servers using Game-coin, to prevent players from "hopping" across premium servers.

2. Reserved slots

Once your server gets full, or even half-full, you can restrict entry to paying players only. This is good for wildly-popular servers that are choke-full during peak hours.

3. Restricted entry

You can simply kick any non-paying players. This is good for private clan/match servers, or adults-only servers whose cost deters younger players.

4. (available soon) VIP privileges

You can grant paying players special privileges on your game server. This method will be available soon.

Note that you can also use any combination of the above, or come up with your own billing plans. Our server-side plugin is highly modular and extensible. If you know a bit of Sourcemod programming, then you can easily customize it to your specific needs.

What if I already accept donations & grant my donors VIP status?

You can very easily add Game-coin as an additional billing option by simply adding a few lines of code to your existing VIP plugin(s), that grant VIP privileges to players that are currently paying you through Game-coin. See below for details (?Granting privileges to paying players?).

For more information, please visit http://Game-coin.com

Refer Game-coin to game servers and make money. See http://game-coin.com/Ref.

If you need some feature that currently doesn't exist on Game-coin, by all means let us know!

Thanks!