Suggestion: Cash shop + Voting sites

Just saying hello after a long haitus
After reading the recent announcement. I know we are missing 2 crucial things.
We need more players and we need some income to cover the cost.

I am sure you have heard of cash shop, those that are willing to spend some real life cash to get some in game advantages will use your cashshop.
1) (5) instant re-spec (10 usd)
2) Increase your current monster live span for 2 months (5 usd)
3) Guild with some basic upgrades (10 usd)
4) Funding code progression.

This is only a few examples what can be sold in the cash shop.

Getting more players and keeping them here is the hard part.
We need more exposure and that can be done by rewarding players to vote for us(voting site).
Just check the normal ranking sites do you see monbre ranked (high)?
Voting rewards could be monbre points.
With enough monbre points you could exchange them for skill points or for some items in the cash shop.

Some small things:
A search function for the forum would be nice?
a longer kept history/more pages of the forum?

I'll be back..

Heavy

Funny you should mention the search function - that's just what I randomly decided to do today. Go figure.

Anyhoo, unfortunately I can tell you right now the Cash Shop goes against everything I believe in in these games. I'll never forget Outwar, the game in which you pretty much had to pay to do anything fun. Sure it was free, and you could do "anything", but you also had to wait three days extra while everyone who spent 5 dollars would do that in a day. It's not fair and I won't have it.

What I will have, I think, is a VIP option. Probably like $9 for 3 months. I was thinking life for $30 bucks and a friend gets a month too. I'd also allow selling of time for money. (in a market sorta way) VIP would give things that increase the fun of the game while not giving a serious (meaning, at most, a small advantage) over everyone else. The last thing I will have is some pompous rich kid owning everyone in a week.

Voting sites is coming when the game releases to version 2. Already planned, MonBre points and all.

Also, I should say, keeping players is now thankfully not the hard part, it's getting them here. Most newbies at least come back twice.