i would say yes. they use money from profits for movies, and money from toontown STRICTLY for toontown. how will VMK keep up the servers..

hmm.. i said no, but now that i think about it, vmk could start doing that.. you have a point about the profit thing =\

If it will stop the crashes, the lagging, the disconnecting, I hope so.

i THINK yes sooner or later vmk is going to slowly letting you have to pay to get REALLY GOOD STUFF

First I said I don't know but I think they'll keep it free bc is a good marketing and a bate for ppl to go to the parks. VMK players want the cards and prizes you only get at the parks (or trading)

Staff have said many many times that they don't plan we'll have to pay to play. They want more and more people so they get more and more people into the parks. If they made you pay, we'd lost hundreds right away and we wouldn't grow as much as we are now.

I doubt we'll have to pay, ever.

Incase nobody has noticed, last year the most users on where between 2000-3000, maybe once in a while over 4000. But now, every day its between 5000-6000 (I think, I'm not sure).

That means VMK has gained almost 1000-2000 more daily players. In only a few months, I believe.

It may just have to be the with Dc monster gone, but, I think not.

Anyway, I voted

"What's VMK? I only came here for the icecream."

Yeah, Making VMK players pay would not be a good marketing idea...
Also, if you think about it, VMK isn't growing THAT fast.
Look at RuneScape, they grow about 200-300 DAILY.
Of course, it's a world wide game, which is why I think we should make VMK world wide...
It would cause alot of work I.E new servers, in game translator. The usual stuff.....
Anyways, yes, i voted the ice cream to :)

What's vmk? i only came here for meh icecream

if you have not notice vmk is just a huge advertismnet for the disney co. they get you to buy video for codes and hype their upcoming video and movie releases by dangling a code here and there for a random peice of virtual furniture that cost them nothing. its a real good set up and we go along with it like sheep that they think we are.

Yeah, Making VMK players pay would not be a good marketing idea...
Also, if you think about it, VMK isn't growing THAT fast.
Look at RuneScape, they grow about 200-300 DAILY.
Of course, it's a world wide game, which is why I think we should make VMK world wide...
It would cause alot of work I.E new servers, in game translator. The usual stuff.....
Anyways, yes, i voted the ice cream to :)

i dont really care i play runes scaoe vmk vmk fansite ultimate online toontown
runescape2 and i 21 more games that ive beenbanded for they shouldnt make us pay or they wont loose 100 theyre loose thounsands they loose hundredsa day from bannin ppl !! thir account alwaysa charm @_@

I chose maybe because it is marketing who pays the bills right now I believe. I have been a part of many many sites that were free then started to either charge for certain portions of the site or charge to belong at all.

Hopefully if they ever charge it would be for full access and let you still have some play for free. Personally I hope it always stays free.

i dont think we will have to pay cause now i want to go to the parks more for the cards and thats how they get money right there by people going to the parks.

Actually, Disney thought that they needed a FREE GAME, but it won't have all the graphics like Toontown and POTC game. Toontown and POTC game cost money but lets think about the looks and thing from VMK and toontown:

Toontown:

Is 3-D
Has more places and games

VMK:

Is NOT 3-D
Is quite littler

VMK will probably never cost money IMO.

I dout VMK will ever have too cost money..

What's VMK. i only came here for the ice cream
LIAR! I WANT MY ICE CREAM!
I think VMK will be free forever because if they make us pay to go to the parks AND VMK then they are really pushing it.
~Chaelle

i think vmk will do almost like what vmkf is doing, it will let you play for free but to get sertian idems, you must pay. like on here to get a sig you have to pay a small fee. habbo hotel also does something like this, you can play it, but you can't buy anything unless you use REAL money

VMK does cost money.

First:
You need to go to the parks to get rare stuff.About $3,500.
Now the movie thing that just came out.That will cost some money for the points.
If you think about VMK is not that free.You can play it free with not going to the parks or buying movies.So I think we need to be able to play it with out paying because we are paying money already.

I don't think we will ever need to pay to play vmk. One of the resons they even have vmk is as an adviritisement (sp?) so people would go to disneyland/disneyworld/etc. and buy things to get stuff for vmk.

:tink:AwsomeAdrienne:tink:

VMK in that way does cost money, but if you're a good trader it's all free o.o.... Anyway, I honestly hope they won't make us pay o.0 but I put 'maybe', I'm not so sure =/

well i voted maybe because yes vmk would make a big profit bc think about it.. who likes vmk and plays if all the time? i do lol so i would pay if it was not too much LOL

But the other side is Disney HAS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THEY DONT NEED TO CHARG FOR THAT BC THEN THEY WOULD LOSE PPL AND NOT MAKE AS MUCH MONEY

I was about to make a poll about this LOL ROFTL

Sooner or later, we will have to pay...

i voted maybe... they could i hope not!

no! Plz I Love Vmk Do Not Make Me Pay! ( Plz )

Maybe, just like they have the quests they can get you to buy tickets to the parks.

Eventually, (sadly) there will probably be really cool features you can have if you're a paying member. I really hope this doesn't happen, because it's one of the few things that makes me not like a game anymore.

VMK by far is my all time favorite virtual game that I've found so far and it's because it's live, cute, and doesn't cost anything. I've quit all the other games I used to play for it! ^_^ But I really hope it doesn't start to cost anything. If it does, I'm going to have to find another favorite site. -_-

Nope. VMK is an advertisement for the parks. Who would pay for an ad?

no i dont think so bc that would not be the disney way in my opinion although banning ppl forever for saying they have inferno is also not the disney way

if you didnt get what i just said just ignore this post :) lol

I say no, because, VMK is essentially an advertisement for Disney. And you don't pay for advertisements. Would you ever pay for a pop-up?

it cant, vmk is getting all its money scheme from the quest items, they are making a profit. the add ons mean they have extra money to add...

i believe that vmk will cost some sort of money for something sooner or later not sure when but it origanly was made so the quests brought you to the parks for your rare stuff. it's a business people, nothing in life is free, these staff members, testers, producers, game designers, etc. don't work for free, this is their job. they get paid, things need to get paid for, so the orignal idea was to bring you to the parks. thats what they want. example(this is what i think happened this might have not been the real idea): ever notice that the stitch hat is when you book a trip to disneyland, well WDW gets all the visitors and they needed people to come to DLR so they get more people in.
well this is my idea of what vmk is for you don't have to agree, you don't have to care.

*some ideas may be all over the place, correction all of the ideas are all over the place and you might not understand XD

Let me wrap this up in the simplest way I know.. NO THEY WONT :)

Wow..i need to get a LOT of ice creams xD

No, VMK will not be charging anytime soon, as my knowledge.

How do I know this? VMK is making Disney quite a lot of money (with the in-park quests, DVD sales, etc.). They already are making lots of money, and paying for VMK will make it, well,... unattractive to new players and old.

-FrozenPeach

I say no because VMK is just a huge advertisement

* Looks around * Where the heck is the ice cream?

I doubt that it will cost money!

I say no VMK is very popular in the parks and people go there and spend money just to do the quests and get cards. We pay to get into the park, pay to eat, and buy stuff in the stores so I think they are doing just fine. Not to mention all the new points that are in the movies that we will buy to get the cool new stuff Wow!!! :)

VMK is a good idea, even though is a free game, they still get profits when players go to the parks to do more Quests and get stuff you can only get in parks.

They do a wonderful job advertising all this.

Good luck VMK 1 Year! :5: - stay the same :D

As put by GB Shorts vmk is an advergame ppl pay other ppl to advertise for them disney is making money because more ppl are going to the parks and buying dvds more now to get the codes:



200th post!!!!!!!!!! woot :P

i put what is VMK i came here for and ice cream because i am cool like that but maybe they will eventually have you pay to play :- )

They Better Not,If You People ever go To Disneyworld And Do the Quests There and Getting the Stitch Hat And Going to Disneyland That's Already Costing You Money Right There Just for something Virtual To Do The Quest and That Park Thingy,So I Think They are already costing You Money.

Two words:

BETTER NOT!

so many ppl came here for the ice cream?? LOL

I hope not. If it does I'll have to quit.

But I doubt it will.

I Hope NO...
Please VMK i love this free game.

hasn't yavn said that VMK will NEVER cost money? i thought i read that sometime back ago...
would i mind? it of course depends on the cost. if it means i have to get a job to play, lol not going to happen, im not lazy, but i can tell you my parents wouldn't pay for me! Point made?

Aww, I really hope not :( I don't know if I would be able to pay if it did. :( That's so depressing... LOL

~Pink

I Doubt it, and I Certainly hope NOT. If they did, I would SCREAM MY HEAD OFF! Whee! Just my thoughts...

mmmmm
ice cream
owww!!!
Brain Freeze
Hope it don't cost money!!
I'd be broke
P.S
this is 100th post

I actually think VMK is doing very well on that topic. Vmk will not make players pay for enjoyment. We want to play the game and the people who are running it want us to be safe and have fun. They don't need us to pay for the game. It doesn't cost to make graphics on the computer. Unless of course they need to buy new computers and such. Only my thoughts! Happy Halloween!

I actually think VMK is doing very well on that topic. Vmk will not make players pay for enjoyment. We want to play the game and the people who are running it want us to be safe and have fun. They don't need us to pay for the game. It doesn't cost to make graphics on the computer. Unless of course they need to buy new computers and such. Only my thoughts! Happy Halloween!

About this: VMK does cost money to disney company, they paid for the servers, for the hosts, the programers.. but they use the game as marketing for the parks and other products they sell. That's why I think it won't cost us money.

I think VMK will cost, however I wish there was a way to implement free vmk because I know for a fact there are many who can not afford or their parents won't let them pay for a game.
Interesting though how would they ban players that would take fee for game?
Maybe as I have posted before u could walk around but not be able to talk for a few days or tops a month to learn your lesson of saying the wrong things on the game. Just a thought.
It was desinged as a free game for the 50th anniversary of DLR at its beginning, i believe. Maybe pay members could get other cool virtual stuff. And have some pay for regular play. Im sure that would get some of us, LIKE me. :11: LOL

I hope vmk doesn't start making us pay. They should just have a donation thing so if we want to we can donate to vmk ;)

I really hope not!! That would be really junk. and i would not come on this site and tell people to boycott. but for now. . . . i think i will play it. lol

i wish ppl. would just drop this whole subject, leave the "paying" thing alone, if nobody hears about it vmk wont get any IDEAS to make us pay. just stop before they DO make us pay!

vmk is an advertisement to get you to go to the parks that is why it is free. it will probably never cost anything.

Yeah, Making VMK players pay would not be a good marketing idea...
Also, if you think about it, VMK isn't growing THAT fast.
Look at RuneScape, they grow about 200-300 DAILY.
Of course, it's a world wide game, which is why I think we should make VMK world wide...
It would cause alot of work I.E new servers, in game translator. The usual stuff.....
Anyways, yes, i voted the ice cream to :)

i wonder how many of those 200 - 300 are clones people have made to find a way to get more money. do to the fact they can't play any games because there PC needs more memory to run the games.:h-wink:

if vmk could find a way to make the games run easyer when people play them i bet the clone factor would drop! games do not need to be easyer but run alot better!

Huh? I came here for the ice cream. Make it orange sherbert with sprinkles and in a cone please. Will $3.45 cover it???



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i say no, they won't start making you pay, at least not any time soon.

no i hope not it would not be good for me!.

then my mom would not let me play vmk anymore because she never lets me play games that costs money so i hope not i hope i hope i hope!!!.

I would think definentally sometime, weither it's in 2-5 years they have to make money sometime. I would be willing to pay up to $15 a month.

If it meant no lags and no crashes in the game as well as more open rooms for Staff games and trades you bet I would pay for VMK. Toontown has none of the problems that VMK does. Hmmm, I wonder why? :h-wink: LOL

WEll I think maybe.. I'm not sure..

i said , whats vmk? im here for the icecream! lol actually i mean no , i just wanted to say that!

I certainlly hope it doesn't go the path of toon town.
Because look at toon town now.
I think the point of VMK, is to make you want to go to a Disney park, and of course fun!
But, if it is to make you want to go to DLR or WDW, then it worked!
I recently convienced my parents to book an online trip to DLR
[Hello Stitch! ;)]

how is toontown bad? toontown would be clogged with 1,289,982 members at a time/

i think it should cost money if the make better graphics, so you can zoom in and out of your character and turn the screen around to get different views, no exit button to walk on you just walk onto a path to get there, you use your keyboard to walk, weather effects, more furniture, and so we can talk how ever we want( although that might make it rated teen and that is just wierd cause probably no one would play it, some ppl think there to old for it and they think they have to grow up now) i love vmk it is so fun. so i think we should pay if they add that stuff say about 5 or 10 dollars a month just like toon town, that is the graphics it should have. and about getting to rooms and having friends that is something i have to think about...

I did whats vmk I'm just here for ice cream lol just joking but i really did put that lol

i hope ( and think ) that they won't make it where you have to pay to get on vmk because ppl go to dlr and wdw bc of vmk, and if you had to pay to get on vmk AND they were getting money when we go to dlr or wdw, it wouldn't be fair, and eventually, nobody would play vmk anymore, bc it would all be paying money alot lol

I said no, because first of all Disney makes enough money already so I would think they would at least leave the game to be free. I totally agree with mogwog because it is a advertisment for disney so that people would be persuaded to go to the parks for the items on the games or just to get them involved with disney period. So I think no, but eventually (which i hope not) they might start charging.

Im sorry but that would totally stink if VMK started to cost money.. I have very little money so there goes VMK out the window for me! :( :( :(

I dont think so. If a game is out of Beta for a while and you dont have to pay, then you probably never will have to. I would pay though, if I had to.

Plain and simple, No. Why would they want people to pay? That means they would not have as many players, and it's doing very fine without paying as it is. If we did, I would have to quit also.

Actually I Said Maybe But I Highly Doubt They Will Because They Do Get Money From People Coming To WDW Or DLR For VMK Cards And Also They Have That New Thing Where If You Buy 7 Movies You Can Get A Code For VMK Furnshing. If Anything It Can Cost Money As Long As It Doesn't Shut Down :h-biggrin

I don't think so...If it does my parents won't let me play anymore so I hope not!!

i doubt it yavn said it himself that you will never have to pay for vmk

I dont think so. The main goal is to try and persuade people to go to the Disney Parks, (examples: quest items, or trying to get Stitch hat from the resorts) and that is how they make a huge profit.

i dont think u'll have to pay then bc if u have to pay vmk might lose ppl who play vmk

hey maybe it could cost money if they made it an online cd. like you buy the cd of vmk and it connects to the internet not a bad idea i say.

VMK's making us pay money already. It's bate for the theme parks and I just went this week and spend alot. I don't think they would want us to pay form home. If VMK makes us pay, i might quit. It's a reason I chose VMK. Free is the coolest word!

Ice Cream! (rats, No Ice Cream)

a good thing about if vmk cost something they won't make us already excisting players play i hope... and it will finally stop the mule problems. but vmk will lose busieness

yes so they do get paid for buying stuff for vmk plus to get in disneyland i payed 200$ for a pass. Plus i answerd the ice cream one ;) wish it was hotchocolate

well, all I gotta say is, it better not eventually cost money. :17:

If it does i will QUIT!

I say it better not, but voted for the ice cream. :Tongue:

LOL i wouldv'e voted for that but i didn't lol

Yeah!! i mean come on everyone is playing it well i think it is

no it will never cost money!! never ever

No, part of the money from the tickets we buy to go to Disneyland Parks pay for the servers to keep this game up.

how will VMK keep up the servers..

The Disney Company Pays Yavn, Yavn Gets new Servers, While Disney gets some Advertising! Thats how! :D

True but if VMK did cost money would VMK lose more prophits than before?

Since VMK is really just a very clever marketing tool to get more people to visit the real Disney parks, it would be unwise for them to charge for the game. They want you to eventually pay big bucks in the parks, not peanuts to play in an online virtual park. VMK whets your appetite to experience the real deal! I love VMK and the DLR and WDW! It is so much fun to do the real quests and get your cards and enter the codes in on VMK. It prolongs your Disnsy park experience. I would never pay for VMK though. It would be like paying to watch commercials on tv!

if you have not notice vmk is just a huge advertismnet for the disney co. they get you to buy video for codes and hype their upcoming video and movie releases by dangling a code here and there for a random peice of virtual furniture that cost them nothing. its a real good set up and we go along with it like sheep that they think we are.Ahh, you may think, but really, really, vmk is just something for ppl to do when there bored or have some time. I mean yeah it might be just one big marketing thing, but don't look at it that way. that takes all the fun out of vmk and that's what ppl DON'T want on the forums. if you think that vmk is just some marketing thing, then you should stop playing it. now:23: