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Sobekeus wrote:
Try it for a day, I'm betting the amount of money you take in won't be much different. AND you get more respect from the customers who tip well.
FuschiaD wrote:
Sobekeus wrote:
Try it for a day, I'm betting the amount of money you take in won't be much different. AND you get more respect from the customers who tip well.
For offering my services for free? No thank you. I don't have set prices, but I will NOT work for free, period. For all the reasons I listed above. Weaponsmiths don't do it. Doctors don't do it. Why should entertainers?
ToppDog wrote:
or at least they used to...
yes, used to. i have notices somthing happening to bria, everyone is poor by the time thy get to the im, they pay for buff, armor, and wepon. but wait the image designer gets no tip, lol
i say "plz tip 10k more or less, ok"
3 weeks ago that ended up beinf 12-20k most if the time
now it come up at 3-10k, i dident receve more than two tips abpve 10k today, and my higedt tip was 12k
FuschiaD wrote:
Sobekeus wrote:
Try it for a day, I'm betting the amount of money you take in won't be much different. AND you get more respect from the customers who tip well.
For offering my services for free? No thank you. I don't have set prices, but I will NOT work for free, period. For all the reasons I listed above. Weaponsmiths don't do it. Doctors don't do it. Why should entertainers?
Sobekeus wrote:
FuschiaD wrote:
Sobekeus wrote:
Try it for a day, I'm betting the amount of money you take in won't be much different. AND you get more respect from the customers who tip well.
For offering my services for free? No thank you. I don't have set prices, but I will NOT work for free, period. For all the reasons I listed above. Weaponsmiths don't do it. Doctors don't do it. Why should entertainers?
Weaponsmiths and Docs both have to pay money to do what they do, or spend loads of time longer just to do it for free. Either way they do more work for what to me is far less fun.
I work for tips too Sobekeus.
Regarding your point to weaponsmiths and docs.I know weaponsmiths and docs ingame that wouldn't find image designing fun at all. They do love their profession though. And they charge nice sums for the weapons and buffs they make. It might be less fun in your eyes, but it's not in theirs. They love their profession aswell, does that mean they have to sell their weapons and buffs at a costprice? no, they can make a profit. At least that's how i see it.
My hairdresser in real life has been a friend of mine since childhood, the same goes for my dentist. My hairdresser doesn't really use anything other then water, shampoo and scissors sometimes when he cuts my hair, yet i do pay him (yes, i have a male hairdresser who's married and has a kid.. not too many of those running around
-well not here anyway - he was the only man in a class full of girls in secondary school - he loved it
I know swg is just a game and can't really be compared to real life. And in such, i don't really have the desire to make an enourmous amount of money in game. But i do like to get tipped for my work, and appreciated too.
There are benefits to having set prices and benefits to not having them. Personnally i don't have fixed prices either. I work on a tip basis. i tell them to pay me what my services are worth to them. Sometimes i get 10K, sometimes 100K, sometimes more, sometimes less. Some customers seem to prefer having a set price list though as they are uncertain as to what to pay.
Anyway the point i'm getting at is : I do believe image design sessions should be payed. We indeed do not use resources, however we do use the one thing in game that actually means something: we give other players our time and full attention. And i love image designing just as much as the rest of us do. It's because i love it that i like to get tipped for my work.