You might have noticed if you are not using an ad-blocker that the ads lately on gamersyde have been getting more and more intrusive. Even though I'm personally quite happy not to have to pay some of the site's expense out of my own pocket anymore since we switched to our current ad network, this latest type of ads is utterly and absolutely not acceptable. We are currently working with our ad partner to ensure these are never to be seen again on the site (please let us know on the suggestions forum if you see any of these again starting tomorrow), and I hope we'll be able to bring you guys the same quality of browsing as we had before. We are also thinking about another way of financing the site, so if you are interested, read on inside this news!
We are thinking about using a site like Patreon to have an alternate way of financing the site besides regular ads. For those who never used that site, it allows you to give an arbitrary sum of money to someone or a company, on a monthly basis.
This generosity would of course mean a few things for our patrons, like ads being disabled (of course), a special mention on the forum account, a dedicated download server, little things like that. Needless to say, no current (or future as far as I can tell) feature of the site will find itself magically restricted to our sponsors, you should know us well enough by now to know this would never happen. :)
What do you think about that idea? Would you be willing to help us financially with a patreon-like system?
All comments (31)
i remember disabling it a long time ago as well...thnx for the reminder blim
We almost literally NEVER have to deal with children, man children, or ego inflated assholes like almost every other legitimate news outlet is infested with anymore.
Gamersyde deserves money from every regular based on the sole fact that we get unbiased news in an industry that is quickly becoming one where bias can be paid--and cheap.
Just keep up the good work, and its great you guys brought this to the communities attention. If it were some place like gamefaqs, or IGN, they'd bury your concerns and just wait for you to leave after getting tired of dealing with it.
When im able to contribute i definitely will.
We almost literally NEVER have to deal with children, man children, or ego inflated assholes like almost every other legitimate news outlet is infested with anymore.
Gamersyde deserves money from every regular based on the sole fact that we get unbiased news in an industry that is quickly becoming one where bias can be paid--and cheap.
Just keep up the good work, and its great you guys brought this to the communities attention. If it were some place like gamefaqs, or IGN, they'd bury your concerns and just wait for you to leave after getting tired of dealing with it.
When im able to contribute i definitely will.
I personally would not donate directly. It's not something I do. Sorry.
People who use adblocker need to get over themselves and the value they place on 30 seconds of time.
You cannot claim to support this site in any way or appreciate them if you use it. You are straight up making life harder for the people running this relatively small site.
Either a no ads option or even just a way to contribute would be awesome. I never watch trailers and stuff ANYWHERE else because of the quality you guys host at. Streaming stuff of late has also been awesome, not having to download every time has meant I watch more stuff from you.