Kraynic said: I think the hurdle is that most (all?) vtts that have a buy once model don't have much in ongoing expenses. If you buy a vtt that is stand alone software, then you pay for the bandwidth and storage you use. Roll20 has the ongoing cost for server space and storage that won't go away, so they are paying for our storage and bandwidth. And that is true for all games run and played by free accounts as well. It would be a nice option. I'm not sure it is actually possible for a web host to go to that model and expect to be able to reliably pay the bills down the road. I am not a programmer, but I do know a bit about marketing statistics. It is more profitable to obtain new subscribers than it is to maintain a focused group of them, because eventually a person's subscription stagnates. At that point, the subscriber's subscription maintains a base level, but does not increase. In English, let's say we have a pro subscriber that does the $100 a year plan, and we run some statistics to determine the average pro subscriber keeps their subscription for about 3 years before deleting their subscription. If we offer a permanent plan for around $650, yeah that's a large chunk of change to charge, but we have still made a profit on that pro subscriber.
