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Premium vs ads
The digital ads revenue model is starting to show its limits. In April, ad revenues for Firestone per (non-subscribed) user will roughly be 0.25% of what it was in 2022. This means that the current business model is not viable for me anymore, and forces me to rethink how Firestone generates revenue (or stop working on it full-time).
IMPORTANT: everything that is listed below may change, this is just me exploring options.
The first option I will explore is to offer a real premium plan. Today, you can subscribe for $3 / month to support me and remove the ads. I want to move the price to $5 / month, and offer real features to premium subscribers.
My guideline for now will be: data that you (the users) provide should stay free. So I want to limit the features to Quality of Life things, or features that require some advanced processing.
Options:
- Move the BG hero selection overlay and hero tier information to premium-only. The information is already available in the BG window (that you can bring up with Alt + B), and overlaying the information on the hero selection screen is just convenience.
- Same for BG achievements info