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Reasons This service is a way for @Afilion to get something back from the project, and is not going to the project itself. It is a service that is being offered for him as a third party contractor, it both enriches the community and helps him monetarily. This definitely will not affect the game in a negative way, because it took me a couple hours to do it, and I am tired of working on other things in the game at the moment. This is a break from that to allow me to relax and do something different. As for villages, Jutsus, and the like, we've been adding new content everyday. Why exactly should we be miserable making the game? Sometimes it is good to mix things up. Although, this service is obviously one of many we will offer, and those will actually fund the project directly. Those who contract @Afilion, will be motivating him to continue to do free work for it though. Change I have decided to make some changes to this system already... Instead of linking your profile song, we will make tracks that you can select as your character's RP song which will be used for initialization of combat such as in the arena, and other players will be able to listen to it by right clicking your character and selecting "Play Theme Song". We may eventually force you to use your Theme Song in place of your Profile Song, but that is still undecided, and this may be a paid service only since theme songs are personalized. We're not sure if we will make default theme songs for people to choose freely, it is still up for discussion. I hope that with these changes, more people will think this is a great RP element to be added to the game which will allow people to be more in character. This system has been postponed though, and the current state of it will remain unfinished until later. Thank you all for your feedback.

@Ryu Regardless of where the money goes, I think it's perfectly acceptable to sell aesthetic services; different colored names, unique clothing and more profile options are all pretty commonplace in other MMO communities, and those things don't impact game balance whatsoever. I do agree, however, that this seems to be pretty low on the list of priorities. Still, when you spend as much time working as Rory and Seth do, sometimes it's necessary to change pace and work on something just for the fun of it. I like and support this feature.