Lifetime Gold membership changes

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  1. george

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    Members that have received at least 10k likes will be automatically promoted to Gold members without an expiration date.
    There will be no need to visit the Store to purchase the Gold lifetime option.
    Since you do not have to visit the Store, no Trophy Points are needed at the activation of the Lifetime Gold. You are just automatically upgraded to Gold at 10k likes and that's that.
    We also have new Trophies after 10k likes. Check them out here:
    https://p-v.club/help/trophies
    Soon there will be new ways to spend your Trophy Points.
     
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  2. tribal

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    So, you took away my life time membership and ALL accumulated points I had left (500)???
    Really????? This is how you reward our efforts???? I have worked a long time towards life long membership, I have shared the content I have paid money for. After all that, I am left with nothing????

    SHAME ON YOU, we did not deserve this.
     
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    This was not an easy decision to take.
    But this was made in an effort to determine members to continue sharing and also keeping their links alive even after 10k likes.
    That is why, after you have reached 10k likes, you will still get the same amount of Trophy Points but you will get 100TP at each additional 1000 likes (or 500 TP at 5k likes / 1000 TP at 10k likes).
     
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    Let me check and get back to you.
     
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    Soooooooooooooooo.....with 42K + likes.....i get 3K trophys, and have to "buy" GOLD every month?????
     
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    Since there is no more Lifetime option all the members have to get the monthly option.
     
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    Why? You have enough TP to last you many years to come.
     
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    Because we worked hard for lifetime membership, often spending our own money, just to be left with literally NOTHING.
     
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    I apologize for that tribal, there was actually a bug and your TP were removed in error.
    I fixed that for you.
     
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    Accepted. But I have spent a lot of trophy points on lifetime membership, trophy points I've collected for 3 years, only to have "lifetime membership" for few months. What about those points? You should reimburse us all at least half of them.
     
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    Actually those points were part of the whole lifetime membership system.
     
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    Which you took away. So all my points gone for something I was having 3 or 4 months. 3 years of posting down the drain.

    When you treating us like this, how can you expect we will continue posting??? For what, for you next punishment. Thank you, but no thank you, I have lost all respect and trust I had.

    Lesson learned, the hard way.

    RETURN US ALL TROPHY POINTS WE'VE SPENT FOT "LIFETIME" MEMBERSHIP, THEN YOU CAN START REBUILDING THE TRUST. UNTIL THEN, SAYONARA.
     
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    You have 500 Trophy Points. You will get 100 more when you will reach 11k likes.
    Until now there were no more Trophy Points after 10k likes. That is why there was a way to purchase a lifetime membership and only for that. Besides now there is a way to keep earning more likes. I think it is fair.
     
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    And how much TPs did I have to spend for "lifetime" membership? Please correct me, but I think it was more than 500. So all those TPs down the drain for 4 months of "lifetime".
    This was an asshole move and you know it.
     
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    Hmmmm....seems i had to earn a b*ttload of likes to get a lifetime membership.....and only kept 300+ trophy points that were left over....nope, does not seem fair,,,,no way, no how. Agree with tribal.
     
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    @george Personally I think this system is not fair at all for all those members who worked really hard towards their lifetime membership. It is not just about having a lifetime membership but it's also about having in a way a sense/feeling of a great accomplishment. We all know how hard it is to get there. As mentioned above, it takes years to get there. Please admins, if you wanna change rules about trophy points make it applicable to those who are not there yet, as in this new rule should not affect those who have already got their lifetime membership. That's just my two cents

    I feel your pain/concern @tribal , @ikngood, and all those who lost their lifetime membership.
     
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    Agree. It's not fair to take their lifetime memberships away. They earned it and you sold it.

    It's ok to not offer it to other members from now on. But the old ones helped to bring this community what what it is now. Not only by sharing great content and buying gold memberships. It's that they believed in it from the beginning. Many of them are still here and continue sharing. You need to compensate this in some way @george.
     
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    I agree - there should be some exception or "grand-fathering" process for those who have already earned this status - I think there were less than 20, correct? I personally can be excluded because I've enough points to last approx 13 + years (I'll have passed on by then or I'm sure this whole process will be an antiquated paradigm). Overall - the switch is fair - I can see that element - but with the caveat of excluding those who've already earned it for the very points expressed by @Leona95 (there's been vested interest in building the foundation by these peeps). I do hope a consideration is given on this . . . it's a healthy request . . .
     
  20. Andrew989

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    Please add more to my trophy point!
    Why remove my lifetime membership and just give back 700 trophy points?, it must be 1k as I purchased so far.
    thanks.
     
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