Limited Time Offer

SMM

How about an offer where customers can pay to have minor bugs, user interface or gameplay issues addressed?

I'm being serious. I would much rather pay for things that annoy me to be corrected than pay for the standard limited time offers. (It goes without saying that only changes which are incidental could be applied.)

For example, when looking at ship schematics in the replicator screen, Id like an indicator to show that I have maxed the ship and can therefore use those schematics as replicator fuel. That's gota be worth 8.99.

Mirror Cartman

Are you trolling?

SMM

Mirror Cartman wrote: »

Are you trolling?

I don't understand your query.

Mirror Cartman

Bugs should be fixed without paying. In well written and tested software, they should not appear in released versions.

After the current Picard issue, with lots of people threatening to stop paying DB money, you are suggesting a new way.

Threatening to not fix bugs unless people pay is not good customer relations, so I can see DB bringing it in next week.

Miles "Coffins for Cardies" O'Brien

You shouldn't have to pay extra for bugs to be fixed, thats something that should just be the done thing.

Personally I think the best thing would have been a legendary citation instead of a Mirror Picard. Think about it, if you want to immortalise your 4/5 Picard you can use the citation for that or you can use it on whatever you want instead of feeling like you've just been screwed out of cash or honour points.

[PAaA] Admiral Spear

I think you just described net neutrality

SMM

I agree will all that has been said but DB has also said that that they have 'priorities'. Code for the little things will never be done. (Not just bugs) So why not?

Captain_Who

Careful, they'll think you meant pay to GET bugs. They stopped reading after get and before fixed.

Captain Sushi

Paying to fix bugs also incentivizes putting in bugs, in order to be paid to fix them. As pointed out in at least one Dilbert strip I can think of, a real-world company which tried this found out very quickly what a mistake it was.

arjuna

Captain_Who wrote: »

Careful, they'll think you meant pay to GET bugs. They stopped reading after get and before fixed.

That's what this would turn into is a supply and demand issue. They would supply bugs so that the demand to get them fixed for $ exists. This model would also destroy any software as the consumer would just using it so I don't see it actually being tried.

elemntee

This is the worst idea that I have ever read.
I would only pay money if there was a chance of getting the bug fixed.