Well this may really peeve a few folks but it seems that many of the already in use pricing systems out there like credits etc. have shown their drawbacks for example companies having to micromanage each transaction and keep up with usage rates to get free credits etc. Perhaps PP golf should simply charge say $50.00 for the stand alone game for the pc that does not allow online play and then another amount say $30.00 if a person wants the pc version of a course creator to be used with the stand alone pc game that does not allow online play. The Cousre Creator could be an optional add on. Online play I think needs to be a fixed amount a year for a year of use; therefore, a person will not feel that each month they need to decide if they still want to pay money out to maybe play golf or not. Let them pay each year this way they can take a break for a few months knowing they can come back to it with the concept that they are not loosing any money even though they are not playing.
One thing to consider about PP Golf is that they are people spending their time and talents and money to provide us with this product - they deserve to get paid and to make a profit ANYONE who does not agree with this does not understand the concept of how capitalism provides the best products through competition and by allowing profit to be given to the creators of such. Anyway, this is the fundamental problem with the United States of America right now is that people do not understand Capitalism and that making a proift is not evil but anyway thats for another discussion.
I realize too that there is a post out there regarding credits but this post is more than just kicking around the concept of credits or free credits.
Perhaps too maybe customers who bought the Course Creator for PP - sorry but I forgot the name .... what is it Course Forge or something anyway maybe customers who bought the Course Creator could have the option of sending their Created Course to the PP people and in the event they totally love the course sent to them then the PP people could then sell it to the community for a nominal fee say $5.00 a course as an add on or maybe $2.00 a course if it looks like many people are buying the course. Ok wait a minute consider this concept. WE NEED TO figure out a way for the PP People to initially make money by the realease of their game and to contiunue to make money so this thing does not die even though many of us, now are convinced, that if it would only be released now if would be the ultimate and stay the ultimate forever. This thing though awesome can die after it is released if it does not grow and grow means they continue to make a profit.
Consider this too. The person who submits a course needs to pay the PP People $5.00 just to look at their course. This is to hopefully minimize the amount of worthless junk the PP people will have to look at (usually a person will not submit junk if they have to pay someone to look at it - it will be a lot less junk than if people could just send in stuff for free - There will be many websites that pop up perhaps with free user created courses) Ok so a customer sends in a course by paying $5.00 for example, PP people adopt the course and submit it to the community. The PP people then pay the person who submitted the course $5.00 and after 90 days at the sole discretion of the PP People they pay the person an additonal $100. This would likely be done if the PP People determine this course is not on any free sites meaning it is not being distributied to anyone and everyone. Doing it this way would hopefully make the course Unique and the course only available thru PP. Furthermore, the course remains the property of the person who created it; however, they have no recourse towards PP people in the event they believe it was distributed freely by PP people or in any way missuesd etc blah blah blah by PP people. Now after 3 years the person who created the course gets another $150.00 paid to them by the PP People but the PP People have the sole discretion as to whether or not they make this payment.
Doing all of this above will more than likely cause a person to submit good courses and get paid for them and PP people make money too and PP people are not liable for anything. Also, the after the 3 year concept means the person now can distribute the course freely if it wants to. Doing this above regarding courses will more than likely keep a submitted course only available through PP people for 3 years. If the submitter sells the course online etc whatever what would probably happen is that the PP people would no longer accept courses from this contributor and their name would be mud but in the event everthing goes along normally then they person could be in the archives of PP and then we could have people that get free upgrades and content because they are in the top 10 of courses submitted etc. All kinds of optons available here.
Ok your turn tell me I'm an idiot and a moron lol.