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[copinggoggles]

Hello, Milliwaysers! I meant to get this post up yesterday, but then I accidentally a house full of cousins for twelve hours. Twelve! Relatives, I love you, but don't you know that I have the internet to attend to? Anyway.

Per Cam's last post on the subject, and given the fact that Dreamwidth staff will soon be lifting the final restrictions (

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Re: Reasons for No (ATM) and, Should the Move Happen, A Way To Save Money with Icons

[copinggoggles]

Actually, assuming that RPers are overall more inclined to opt for accounts with greater numbers of icon slots and/or pay for extra icon packages, LJ and DW overall work out much of a muchness.

More details can be found in the cost analysis part of this post, but in summary:

Paid account with 100 icons on DW: $17.50 (6 months) // $35 (12 months)
Paid account + 70-icon package on LJ: $21 (6 months) // $29.95 (12 months)

Premium account with 250 icons on DW: $25 (6 months) // $50 (12 months)
Paid account with 240 icon slots on LJ: $33 (6 months) // $49.95 (12 months)

The above does not include LJ's free loyalty userpics, but also assumes you are using LJ's automatic payments. If you have automatic payments turned off, LJ actually gets more expensive.

Re: Reasons for No (ATM) and, Should the Move Happen, A Way To Save Money with Icons

[copinggoggles]

What is also relevant is that a free account on DW starts with 15 icons, rather than 6.

Re: Reasons for No (ATM) and, Should the Move Happen, A Way To Save Money with Icons

[fire_and_a_rose]

Valid, then.

That said, there is another issue, which in some ways troubles me more than the first. The other issue with money is that people have paid accounts here for pups already, some (many, I suspect) with extras. Since LJ does not allow the transfer of paid time, this money become effectively wasted.

Re: Reasons for No (ATM) and, Should the Move Happen, A Way To Save Money with Icons

[copinggoggles]

That's true, and there is, unfortunately, nothing we can do about that. However, it's something of a sunk cost fallacy; if someone is remaining on a site purely because to do otherwise would mean that their money had been wasted, then... arguably that money has, at that point, already been wasted.

Re: Reasons for No (ATM) and, Should the Move Happen, A Way To Save Money with Icons

[fire_and_a_rose]

I don't disagree; I did feel it needed to be brought up, though. And again, thank you for addressing it.