$2.99 for an increased game limit?

[bmike]

I appreciate what you are saying but disagree and worry that they didn't set a time limit on the increased game limit.

Renting servers to serve the moves database is not a trivial expense - and I have experienced the opposite on gameplay for free versus paid in the quality of people that engage to play a game. When people pay to play (even if it's the price of a hamburger or sweet drink or an ice-cream sundae) they take the game more seriously and are less likely to abandon games or just be immature and complain if you take 5 minutes to make a move.

I think they have made a very good tradeoff - 5 simultaneous games for free. 20 games if you have bought one player pack of any sort and 35 games if you just pay for added game play and storage. I worry any time a single payment covers an on-going cost for a business to bear. If they are planning on being in the game for the long haul - they have priced two or three years of maintenance for a single purchase. If they are in it for the short haul, what happens in a year when they need to come back and ask for more or slow down the access since we're no longer paying for our server costs to play the game?