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Hm that could work, though I wonder if it would hurt the turnout. I like the idea though.

Another version of this could be an entrance fee for specific events where the house takes say 20% of the pool, winner gets 60% and 2nd place gets 20%. This of course could also hurt the turnout for specific events as well. I'm not sure that the people who know they won't win will even bother to pay money just to lose.

I suppose a monthly pass would be better, now that I think about it. For a once a month fee you get access to any and all events that take place in the event area. That way people couldn't choose to pay for a pass for select events and if they paid for access, not going would be like wasting money! It would be tough to see how it would play out and I'm not sure if knew players would like it much. Starting out and having to pay in order to participate is a little mean.

Well there could be 2 tiers to the pvp system. The first level of the tier could be your basic events that everyone could participate in. The 2nd tier could be like the "special" or "invitational" tournaments or like high stakes as you will. You could earn a pass by winning the biggest tournament in the first tier or you could buy weekly passes. You could get people to pay for the passes because the prizes in the invitational could be bigger or titles could be given out for winning them. Also, by allowing say, once a month a free tourney in the first tier with a prize of a free pass for the 2nd tier could boost player involvement, especially if you made the passes for the 2nd tier expensive. People would hopefully practice all month in the free tournies for a shot at a free pass, and all the rich people could just buy the pass. The prizes would have to be good tho.

Moving onto PvM, you could charge fees for "maps" to special dungeons that require the purchase of directions. That would encourage PvM guilds to pool their money to purchase these maps and raid it together. Now keep in mind for something of this scale to work, the prize would have to be substantial or rare. Unless yo divised a system to completing these 2nd tier tournies or purchasble "maps" to special dungeons would award the player(s) with tokens that could be redeemed for things like 25 tokens gets you a skin color change or something.

Just some ideas...