To be honest, I'm somewhat against this. Supporting something with money doesn't necessarily make it a good feature, and if this system was implemented the features at the forefront wouldn't necessarily be the best features. Additionally, some people don't want to spend their money on supporting features, and this system would be biased in favor of those features where the supporters are willing and able to do so.

I think it could be accomplished better by using a star priority system similar to the one used for beatmaps, but then you'd get the problem of one person calling a bunch of his friends over to star a feature. That won't be as much of a problem, though, because once the feature is reviewed it might not be implemented anyway, and the people within the community supporting the feature request would likely outweigh the one person's friends supporting it.

In other words, yes, it would definitely help, but I think there might be a better way to do it. It's probably just me though.

Besides getting credits through money, how about awarding people a small number of credits when they have contribution in osu? Like map ranked?

Thus far the feedback from the Chinese side (the initial ones that I know of anyway) seems to be that this leans slightly on the side of commercialism. "Money makes the world go round" was one of the comments, so yea >.>;;;

There was a suggestion pushed to me though.

"What if the users can obtain credits besides just money? For example, every ranked map gives them y credits (definitely lesser than from directly supporting)?"

My initial thought was "doesn't that already destroy the concept of 'sponsorship'?" but I thought it'll be good if someone can build on the idea. I feel it's going in the right way but it just needs some kind of polishing somewhere...

For those saying this is "commercialism", just consider the fact that feature requests without this system will not get attention. We are talking about requests in that range of "stuff that might work well but only be used by x users (where x < 100) and therefore peppy will not implement because there are higher priorities". (to be honest i don't expect much from chinese users by way of monetary support, anyway).



ie. this may be the difference between features getting considered or not. rewarding people for mapped maps would be a different concept - not the one I am discussing here, which is giving those who donate/support osu! more weighting. Anyone can rank maps - they don't help me (they just add to bandwidth costs).



ignore the word "credits" - that was just an example. anyone can sponsor a feature by clicking a "sponsor this feature" link. osu! supporters will get a small bonus towards sponsoring features as a way of saying "thanks".

Again, this system would be used for the dozens of smaller, very-low-priority feature requests that peppy would otherwise not waste his time implementing.

i like this idea. it will make osu better and help peppy.

Actually, I'd say this is quite accurate. The people who "have more money" are those out of the "teen" or "child" groupings, which I would definitely trust more in knowing what a good feature was from a bad one.

I'm fine with it.

Just don't make them stars.

I thought about this for a while and decided I am in favor of the idea.

When folks go on and request features, we're basically asking for new stuff to get coded, and I realized I'm okay with the fact that money is paying for these sponsored requests because one rightly should be financially compensated if it is completed.

If a feature request is denied I would hope my credits could be transferred to a different feature request in the future (but those feature points become "locked in" if the feature is added).

I don't understand what all the worry is over. People aren't going to throw money at a feature unless they genuinely think it's quality. This isn't just some selfish, freebie want (such as starring a map). It is literally an investment.

I don't want to look at this from the "boohoo I'm not willing to give back to something I'm taking from and it's unfair to treat those who do with higher regard" perspective, but it's hard not to.

One thing i want to add tho...

Make sure the site and game and everything won't run on the income of this... I've been on a site that failed now because they were running on donations and such and went way over budget with plans, This is what i never wanna see to happen with osu!

And also

I highly disagree with this because teenagers could prioritize the wrong thing and use all of his/her money on osu! and spam everything.

To blandly say, people with more money are older and better to judge is imo the wrong way to think.