The funny thing is we have to pay an extortionate amount to the same company that was profiting off Minecraft too #WhoopBuycraft!
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Wait so now you guys allow selling assets because you get a cut? 
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Yes, so? That was always the plan (there’s public evidence to this dating back to 2018 or before), and the only reason ‘selling’ anything was disallowed ever since 2016-2017 was because it’s unfair everyone was trying to make money when the project itself was a) non-commercial at the time and b) not getting any money at all from others trying to profit off of us.
We tried playing it nice and not making any money, but people like you (@Breze) and similar people forced us to make the project into a for-profit effort.
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Thanks for implementing a proper way of selling stuff on FiveM!
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Compared to whom? I signed up yesterday and they have a prebuilt webstore with so much customizability. Better than anything I’ve ever seen. Commission rate is probably also lower than everyone
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Twitch subscriptions: Amazon takes a 50% fee
Steam games: Valve takes a 30% fee
Isn’t 15% quite low, then?
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Hadn’t even thought about Twitch. Yeah it’s a 50/50 split for subscriptions for my affiliate status. Quite insane
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And even for partners. Only some huge partners get 70/30
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The big argument there with twitch is that Amazon pay for the servers (in its entirety) that the content is hosted on.
I understand that you guys host an awful lot as well however we do still have to pay for our server costs which our content is hosted on.
If you were to compare it, it would be like expecting Summit or Soda to pay for the server that they stream too, so I am a little bit confused about what you mean there.
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From what I know, Tebex never took commission from servers. they only had that premium subscription.
So those 15% are going straight to CFX aka FiveM I guess.
So now CFX gets 15% from all donations + 50$ from patreon for platinum, because, let’s be serious, nobody wants to have a server with 32 slots, so we are forced in a way to buy that Platinum subscriptions.
The entire community is proud of you, CFX.
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FiveM is years of research, reverse engineering and fixes on GTA V.
Their developers deserve this little cut 1000x times more than the ridiculous owner that downloaded the latest esx release from the release section to make you happy.
So enjoy 85% of profit people like hydrogen allowed you to take.
It would be like expecting Summit or Soda to pay for the server that they stream too, so I am a little bit confused about what you mean there.
It is only if you want to PROFIT, FiveM is FREE
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Yeah true, but you don’t pay for the server list, the authentication service and other services that allow multiplayer 
Just because not all your content is hosted on FiveM, does not mean that a measly 15% commission rate is something extraordinary. Whether you believe it’s worth it to you or not is another question, but then simply don’t use FiveM. Just like you don’t have to agree to Twitch’s Affiliate/Partner agreement or aggressive in-player advertisement policies.
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I do like the idea of being able to profit of the project and I am totally down for giving you guys 15% but I have two main problems:
- One: I have a personal vendetta against Tebex (formerly Buycraft) however that isn’t important to this argument.
- Two: Servers that just want to get by (and don’t want to profit) now have to attempt to gain a larger paying base to be able to cover the 15% they originally would have kept doing the donations direct through paypal?
If the case is on that second point is that servers that are not interested in profiting are able to continue to accept the donations through the platforms that they are (just to keep the servers running) then that is a whole new thing. But going off this post it makes it seem like you are forcing anyone that wants community payment or support into using a platform they may not like/or want to use.
If someone wants to make money out of your project then fair enough you should dictate where that happens, but for what is essentially a community run GTA modification I think there needs to be some clarifications on the non-profit options as well.
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Wrong.
And you are aware that, depending on results from this, the Patreon tier prices may be reduced and some even made free?
Maybe have a bit of an open mind instead of instantly assuming malice and spouting hatred.
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No, this is only for “profit”. You can cover immediate server costs as it says in the ToS perfectly fine. That’s my understanding
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‘Non-profit options’ went out the window years ago when people started maliciously making money off of us without even asking us or giving any heads up. That ship has long-since sailed.
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So for final clarification, as of the 1st of July if we want any community payment support it has to be through Tebex, regardless if it is profit or just to keep the servers up each month?
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I replied to you, @d-bubble but being afraid of getting banned on the forum, like I was banned on discord because I suggested to a random user to keep his Antivirus activated, I deleted that reply.
Thank you guys for your extraordinary support, we’ll glad give 15% of all donations + 50$ / month for this flawless platform.
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Why would you be banned on the forum for any kind of constructive reply?
And you didn’t even bother to attempt to ask about such a ban, if that at all happened, to clear up any potential misunderstanding?
We’re all humans here, we aren’t perfect. Stop expecting us to be, when you yourself most likely are not either.
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What about when Albo was advertising to make custom scripts for servers, then, made custom scripts for DOJ, who is notorious for paying for assets, and then Albo coincidentally released his custom firescript that was made for DOJ as soon as DOJ’s assets got leaked.
Seems like profiting off of FiveM has been a thing since the start.
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