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08-02-2018, 08:36 AM

Yuu Wrote: Don't forget, what if someone didn't want an upgraded Account? They just wanted to be a respected person that stands out from the rest?

The forum is free for everyone to use, it stays up because of Ads, Donations and upgrade money. If there's a way to implement a reward into the upgrading system it's imperative that it's added. Don't forget things aren't free in this world, one way or another someone is paying for everything.
The upgrades help the forum stay online and help with the costs of owning a domain and such.
If you don't want to upgrade that's okay, but allowing standard members to have access to more features would also mean that leechers have access to those features. IF you want to be respected and stand out from the rest, you try and get into higher quality groups, and most of the times that means upgrading to be part of something else.
I understand where you are coming from but if we take in count all the points we need to remember that everything has to make money to function, $10 isn't really a lot to be honest. I'm sure you may spend more on other things and it looks ridiculous to spend $10 on an upgrade but there are a lot of things not listed. The rewards from upgrading are there just so people buy the upgrade and keep the servers and domain up without giving Aoki a huge bill that he would have to pay with his own money.