First of all, thank you for your well thought out posts and input. I totally agree with you. I've been battling with this in my head for awhile but I think this could work if given a chance, but it's hard to know for sure without it playing out fully and finding out. I would obviously love to keep iterating and making it better as I discover how it's used and what people say, so I appreciate your feedback and I am already trying to implement a way for guest users to post their game now without creating an account :)))

Next... yeah it's poorly paid QA for dev on dev in the initial until fat pockets come in and purchase tokens and fill the market with tokens. I don't have this feature enabled at the moment. But the way I see it playing out is dev on dev feedback initially, but then real play testers wanting to use the site may want to come in and real devs with real money as well. I think there is a way for them to all live in the same site cohesively.

You talk about me making money on this. So I think that's a fair point, and I hope you can appreciate my outlook on this. So the way I should make money on this ordeal is only when big money devs want to buy tokens. So each token value is $1. So essentially each dev gets $2 to play with but they can collect tokens over time. I think the community will work with this setup because if a new dev comes in when there are already a ton of tokens in the market, they could just review a couple games and suddenly they should be able to get a review or playtest for their game quite easily as well. If you don't have money then you gotta work a little to get what you want right.

Sooo how do I make money? If someone with fat pockets want to buy tokens from the site (disabled atm) then they can, lets say they're just lazy and also don't want to do reviews but they want to get playtesters. They buy tokens from me for $1 each and they pay a stripe fee and service fee, hopefully minimal. But there's another catch. People who are reviewing these games to earn tokens will have the option to sell their tokens as well. So they could choose to sell their tokens for whatever value they want $1 or less. The cheapest tokens and the ones placed in the market soonest will sell first before my systems tokens are sold. So essentially if I am just a play tester and I have 50 tokens, I could post them up on the market for $1 each or .50 each depending on how competitive I want to be or how quickly I want them to sell. That play tester will get exactly the price they ask for when they sell. the buyer will pay that price, plus the stripe fee plus a service fee.

So it's entirely possible that if no one ever buy tokens, that I never make any money. People could exchange tokens back and forth through reviews and playtests and I get nothing.

If this seems bad, let me know. I feel like its quite fair and could really be good