Monthly Classic: Ideas to help Graal

[Tyhm]

My ideas are getting buried in the Lifetime Classic thread, so I'll start a few new ones.

Monthly Classic
Purpose: to bring in money from our classic subscribers on a monthly level
Options: offer this in addition to Lifetime instead of replacing it; refund existing Lifetime players by crediting their account an equal time of Monthly Classic
Expansion: If we allow Anyone to keep their lifetime account, they should be required to rescramble their password and charged to change the email to which it is sent, probably with a grace period of a month or two to figure everything out.
Requires: Just another spot on the shop.

This is the heavy Pros and Cons debate. On the plus side, doing away with Lifetime Classic means more money. Unless it scares everyone off and alienates the existing playerbase, in which case it means less money. If we stop offering it, our existing players aren't likely to riot over newbies having to pay by the month...but unless we take steps such as automatic password scrambling, the Lifetime Accounts will continue to be recycled for generations to come. If we offer subscriptions at a lower introductory cost than Lifetime, we stand the further risk of the scriptkiddies returning, dropping $5 for a month of Classic, getting banned at the end of the month, then starting a new account. This could be offset by requiring the first purchase be at least a Year of Classic in advance, then they can buy smaller increments after that...

Which version of this will be most tolerable to the most people? I mean, it's inevitable Unixmad's going to have to enforce one of them, but we can negotiate the least onerous option if we try.