Fundraiser results for 2011, final results of 2010

do you really think that someone ready to sell a beta for 300+$ won't do so because of a 1$ yearly fees on the marketplace?

 

$1 a year is a nuisance and it's also unnecessary.

WE RAISED THE CASH, GUYS. Job fucking done. Now let's enjoy this ad-free, cost-free forum.

 

Not due to the money per se, but the hassle, sure I do. Not many, but some.

Hell, if I was in that boat and having a bad day I'd go elsewhere where I didn't have to jump through a hoop or two.

As Alchy said, we have the $$$, let's enjoy the forum.

(Assembler's perks for donors idea is win win win for me!)

 

4700 unique daily visitors. Assuming 1 cent per view is a whopping $17k a year. Even if it was $0.01 per view and the whiners blocked them, that's easly $1700 a yer which will cover the majority of the expenses. Food for thought.

 

1 cent per view? Show me an ad company doing that and I'll show you a chapter 11 in progress.

 

Might have kept DonnyK away.

Food for thought :gravedigging:

 

So why not turning Assemblergames into a pay-site. Login with your credit-card details and be forced to make a 1000$ PayPal deposit after your registration for future donations, just in case.
I think it's just fair because people can buy stuff here as well. We should charge marketplace users with 29,95$ a month. Someone who can buy 500$-dev-kits can easily spare another 30$ so he can buy them in the first place.

In addition to that, I believe it would be the least to have an annual subscription fee of 49,95. Courses at the community college, private teachers, university - everything costs money, thousands of dollars/euros/whatever. Why not charge a little something extra for the dense knowledge here at Assemblergames? Those who are really into the hobby will pay it and still contribute.






But to be serious again, I don't really think it's perfectly right from a tactical point of view how the donations are handled right now. I've donated some of my money last year and there was no perk or special donator avatar, but I helped the site and it was well.

This year every donator is shown in a list and those who didn't donate are blamed to be opportunists, people ask to alienate them from the marketplace. Come on, what is that shit?

 

I was trying to address these valid issues with my previous suggestion on the dedicated forum/recognition/year long drive idea. I do not necessarily agree on limiting access to the marketplace forum to financial contributors - all community members benefit in some way (sale or a good buy) at various points during their visits. Also, contributions of knowledge is not something that should be taken for granted nor overlooked - without whom this site would not even exist.

Kevin mentioned something about possible 'perks' for contributors. This guy is primarily doing this (the website) all on his own - might be best to take a wait and see approach to give him some time to digest the various comments/suggestions.

Terry

 

a) I know many sites/forums where only paid members have rights to marketplaces.

b) I don't see you in the donor list...

 

Because I didn't donate this time.

I don't know a single page where you have to pay to trade stuff. And I'm active in... wait a second... 15 movie/game/arcade forums.

 

This can be solved simply..when a big community bid is launched (like for geist force for e.g or sonic xtreme) add 1 or 2 % on top for admin fees. Done.

 

But like others have said, contributing/sharing information is just as valuable, so if charging to access the marketplace, then why not the rare and obscure video gaming or member game collections areas as well.

 

The few support the many, so this place is like a welfare state. It really doesn't bother me. This is the first time I have donated; I have my first proper job. People we asking for ideas and opinions, and my suggestion is to make the marketplace a perk for paying members of the forum. It doesn't bother me either way if that happens. My main concern is the preservation of one of the better forums on the internet.

I do think that it'd be nice to have a little graphic showing the target and the amount raised thus far, as I think it's an incentive and a visual representation of what's going on funding wise.

As everyone keeps saying though, 'we' raised the money, or the money was raised, so I suppose there's not much to talk about

 

Why didn't you donate in 2010 or 2009?

Welfare state... come on!! It's not like anybody forced anyone to set up a forum. There are lots of internet forums out there and as far as I know all the webmasters pay it on their own. But as I said, I donated because I wanted to contribute and that was perfectly fine with me. It just gets on my nerves how some people take their donation as their personal halo for being superior members and even ask for discreditation of others.
It's not like it was very unusual NOT to donate, it's in face rather unusual that anybody donates to a webforum he/she frequents.

 

You're quite right, ave. "Welfare state" was a bit of a joke

This is one of a few forums I have now donated to, but I didn't donate prior to getting my first [proper] job (started in Jan).

Also, you're right about not paying for forums being the norm. I don't feel like I am superior to any other member because of my donation, but I am happy that the forum won't go under [this year] and that I was a part of that

It was my turn to chip in, so to speak

 

Well, I think I'm the other one!

Happy to know everything is OK with the fundraiser. And I prefer this option every year before any paid forum.

Paid marketplace? There is eBay for this...

Cheers,
Alberto

 

is it possible to get a "Site Donor 2011" pic??:love2:

 

Come on guys, I think that at this point the whole idea of the fundraising is becoming more of a hassle than helping the site.
Everyone has a different financial situation, and nobody has the right to say "Hey, you can't say anything because you are not on the donor list"; simply because it's nobody's business what someone else does with his/her money.
I contributed very slimly this year, and last year I chipped in with Tchoin's donation because my credit card hadn't been linked to paypal yet. However, I don't see the point of degrading the people who couldn't donate or gave meager donations because it will ultimately end up by alienating those of us who were not able to make a large contribution, from those who gave hundreds of dollars.

And maybe some of the users are right, ADS would go a long way to solve the funding problem. A couple of adds in the right part of the page for the unregistered users wouldn't hurt and would surely help get closer to the yearly sum needed to maintain the site.

 

I think discussing who donated or who didn't or who can access or can't access whatever is petty and makes us all look small. Everyone donated what they could and were able to, and the goal was reached.

Fuck everything else. This is not a prick-waving forum, it's a gaming and collecting forum and we're all like brothers. Let's keep it that way. Each one of us has their own reasons and situations and nobody else should judge or exclude the rest.

 

I forgot about my donation, so I just sent it. Thanks for keeping the site up, and for everyone that donated.